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...more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness run amuck, and Sheldon Hackney, outgoing president of the university (and current head of the National Endowment for the Humanities), was blasted for failing...
Nevertheless, Generation X has been anointed as the "On the Road" of our time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...
Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquival vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
Sprinkling her talk with professor-speak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquial vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...
Sprinkling her talk with professorspeak like "decisional matrices," the professor does have room for a colloquial vocabulary. She calls Brandeis University, where she studied, the "boondocks" in comparison to her native Istanbul. She also notices when slang usage is no longer au courant with her undergraduate students (e.g. "awesome...