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Slang
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-How cool is that? Definition: That is
cool. This is a rhetorical question, and stu
dents who hear it are not expected to give
an answer, such as, “That is very cool.
Thank you for asking.” The phrase
achieved full Generation X status with its
inclusion in the Weezer song “El Scorcho”:
“I asked her to go to the Green Day con
cert / She said she’d never heard of them
/ How cool is that?”
-Random. Definition: Strange, odd.
-The bomb. Definition: A very cool
thing or person. Despite the destructive,
murderous power of its namesake, the
phrase “the bomb” is a compliment.
Although such words are en vogue
now, whether they will survive the test of
time is debatable, Ferrara said.
“Many youth speech patterns filter up
ward,” Ferrara said. “Some, like ‘cool’ stick
around. Others are ephemeral, they come
and go like butterflies.”
Many slang words and phrases — like
“the bomb” or “all that and a bag of chips”
— appear to have their roots in the African-
American community, Ferrara said.
“The phrase ‘That’s bad,’ meaning
‘That’s good’ — that definitely came from
the black speech community,” she said.
“That’s a big source of language.”
Another important source is the oft-
mocked “Valley girl” community — or, as
Ferrara phrases it, “upwardly mobile
white females.”
“There’s something called up-speak
ing,” she said, “where you make a declar
ative sentence, but the intonation goes
up, so it sounds like a question.
“It’s very frequent with women. They
would say an announcement like ‘We’re go
ing to have a party with the SAEs?’ But it
would sound like, ‘Is that all right with you?’ ”
Another speech pattern that may have
originated among “Valley girls” is the “be-
plus-like phenomenon,” a topic about
which Ferrara wrote an entire journal article.
This phenomenon occurs when young
people use a form of the verb “to be” with
the word “like” to substitute for such
forms as “he said.”
The phenomenon represents a
change in the grammar of the English
language, Ferrara said, and is therefore
significant to linguists.
Although students today might be, like,
“We use slang,” many words and phrases
will die out later in their lives, she said.
“People may use a form during a peri
od of their life and then discard it,” Ferrara
said. “The heavy use of slang may be an
age-graded thing.”
It also varies regionally, she said.
“I remember when I first heard the
term ‘mugging’ to mean ‘kissing,’” she
said. “My daughter said it, and I was
thinking, ‘What does that mean?”’
In other words, it is unlikely viewers
will hear Chandler on Friends say, “Could
this espresso be any more red-ass?”
The use of slang and clipped words is
a predictable trait of college students, Fer
rara said.
“They’re developing their interests,”
she said. “Developing new fashions, mu
sic and new forms of speech.
“Slang is frequent in the field of vo
cabulary. New words come and go all
the time.”
C&W SHOW
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Green said his band’s
music appeals to college
kids because it was not too
long ago that he himself
was in college.
“We love playing to col
lege kids,” Green said.
“That’s our favorite thing to
do. It’s when everyone
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Aggies.
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us thus far.”
Cory Morrow is opening for Chris LeDoux at Hurricai
Harry's tomorrow night. Pat Green and Highway 6 will also pi
Breakers push for Bibles instead of bee
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Temptation
is everywhere. Bars beseech students to drink all day
for $5. Bikini-wearing women beckon. Thong-clad
boys cajole.
Into this Gomorrah wades the Baptist Student
Union and the Campus Crusade for
Christ with a weapon of their own
— pancakes and beach games.
“We’re not going to push God
down their throat,” said Rachael El
rod, 19, a sophomore at Campellsville
University in Kentucky.
It can’t hurt to grease the skids
with flap jacks.
Baptist students spread across
the hot beach sands of this spring
break mecca every day inviting stu
dents to a free pancake breakfast.
As they eat, they listen to talk about
the Bible and Jesus,in the hope they
leave with more than just a full stomach.
About 3,000 young adults, some former
spring break sinners, offer succor to the esti
mated 500,000 college students who annually
make the pilgrimage to Panama City Beach.
Called “Beach Reach,” it preaches without get
ting too pushy.
“It’s a confrontational type of evangelism, but
it’s done in a way that it’s not confrontational,” said
the Rev. Darren Tipton, of Nashville, Tenn.
Tipton, a student evangelism assistant with the
Southern Baptist Convention and leader of “Beach
Reach,” said revelers need a little
reminder of morality.
“They are confronted with
something they thought they left
at home, a lot of them, or that they
didn’t expect to find on die beach,”
he said.
Traditional spring breaker
Rob Pavis, 23, a University of
Buffalo senior from Staten Is
land, thought he would be
drinking his breakfast.
Instead, he found himself eating
pancakes and talking religion with
William Stacy, a Baptist sophomore
. at the University of North Texas.
“I pretty much believe what they believe and I
think they believe what I believe,” said Pavis, a Ro
man Catholic. “It’s nice to meet good people.”
Stacy, 20, of Kerrville, Texas, said he’s just trying
to point people in the right direction.
“I’m not trying to convert anyone,” Stacy said.
“It's a confronta
tional type of
evangelism, but
it's done in a
way that's not
confrontational."
Rev. Darren Tipton
‘Beach Reach' leader
The Baptist students also offer free rides to
dents, hoping to get in a little talk along therc
One van crew had difficulty getting itstt
sage across to a handful of University
Louisville students, some of whom appci
drunk. After playing a game of guessingraa
the van arrived at its destination before am
mentioned religion.
As the students got out they were invited
pancake breakfast the next morning at an ami
ment park parking lot.
Pancakes are not the only way to drat
crowd. The Campus Crusade sponsors
ball tournaments and each evening its mt:
hers gather in a huge blue-and-white strip
tent for singing, Bible lessons and Christi
rock and roll.
Jason Holbrook, 24, a 1995 UniversityofKentui
graduate, used to head to spring break for the us.
reasons. Now he’s with die Campus Crusade.
"Drinking a lot didn’t make me happy, just f
whole party lifestyle, I guess, chasing girls and if
kind of thing,” Holbrook recalled.
“You’d party and spend all your money ons/w
break and just wake up hung over and misrf
Holbrook said. “I kind of grieve for theses de
cause I remember how I felt.”
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Business Foundations Day
Learn about:
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• Different Majors
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• Talk to Upperclassmen In Your Major
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Saturday March 22nd from 11-2 @ the
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