College Freshmen Advice: Learn Your Slang!

By Martie Hevia | Blue Beach Song™

College freshmen, listen up, you might want to do a little studying before getting to college. After all, if you were to go to a foreign country, you would try to learn a few words and phrases to help you get by. In the same way, learning a little college slang might go a long way to helping you fit in or at least understand if someone is insulting you.

There are many books and sources online, but UCLA has been putting together a college slang dictionary for twenty years. The latest, UCLA Slang 6, was published recently on July 29, 2009.  (UCLA News Release: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/schwa-slang-dictionary-marks-20th-95479.aspx)

To jumpstart your education, here are a few words:

• Obama = cool
• schwa = wow
• napster = to interrupt
• eargasm = hearing a beautiful sound
• destroy an exam = do well on an exam
• epic fail = “what a mistake”
• presh = precious
• recessionista = penny-pinching fashionista
• FOMO = fear of missing out
• bellig = belligerent drunk (rhymes with fridge)
• UCLA = under construction like always

But, for all those parents out there, you will be happy to know that cool is still cool, at least according to UCLA.

Martie Hevia (c) 2009 – All Rights Reserved

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