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With the help of the Oxford English Dictionary and the debatably reliable Urban Dictionary, here are some relics of the early aughts to steep you in nostalgia and help you remember a time before you had to worry about essay deadlines and internship applications.
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Between the grammatical corrections and point deductions, Madame Lacascade always managed to squeeze in an “excellent sentence” or a coveted “très bien.” Through her own indisputable passion, she instilled in me not only a love of French but one of language itself.
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I have no recollection of when I started speaking Russian; it just happened. But I moved to California when I was 3 years old and lost the Russian language in the pursuit of learning English. So while I can’t remember learning the first time, I do remember the second time around.
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There are even more ways to talk about sex than ways to have sex. Here’s a quick and dirty linguistic breakdown of a few creative sexual euphemisms from literature and film.
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Gaming is a commodity that can be quite difficult to escape. Aside from people with their eyes glued to their screens, gaming has also snuck its way into modern-day lingo. Here’s a list of eight common gaming slang terms to help you understand, or even impress, your gamer friends.
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The English language can be so confusing with all its loopholes and tricky trickeries. Here are six convoluted, unnecessarily bizarre sentences that are still grammatically correct.
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Changing times demand changing coverage — here are some recent AP Stylebook and Daily Cal style changes that reflect recent events and political shifts.
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This is a ghost story, not because it involves a haunted house, but because it contains a different kind of haunting: a linguistic poltergeist. The persistent specter of fiction creeps into our reality through the language we use to describe it. This is a ghost story about ghost stories.
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Actions may speak louder than words, but some words speak louder than others. Stand out from your peers by spicing up your speech with these archaic words, briefly defined and used in UC Berkeley-related example sentences.
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In anticipation of the 2018 homecoming game, I decided to examine the second fight song that has captured my heart, exploring some of its victories and shortcomings.
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