Walking around campus leaves ears highly susceptible to improper lingo. Not sure if your Pepperdine slang is uncouth? Check out some samples.
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1. Fail. Something can’t be a fail. It can however be a failure a failed attempt and the list goes on…
2. Mixer. Did you know that every gathering of people at Pepperdine is actually a mixer? Attention event coordinators: Sometimes there are parties. Sometimes kick-backs. Get-togethers. Luncheons. Banquets. Galas. Soirees. And why mix eh? Why not blend? Let’s twist. Let’s shimmy. I’ll RSVP “No thank you” until I see language reform.
3. Convo? “Is that for Convo credit…?” Let’s face it. We go to a school that offers credit for sitting in a tree and reading the Bible and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’re all guilty of it but the curious exclamation — “Convo?”— says “I’m only interested in anything remotely spiritual if it satisfies my Chapel requirement.”
4. Tabling. Verb; to table. It never occurred to me that “table” could refer to a physical activity before witnessing it at Pepperdine. Naturally it refers to the act of sitting at a table usually in the Caf and soliciting or promoting a cause.
5. Texting. The correct form is actually “to send a text message.” As of now text does not have a verb form.
6. AKB. The Benton Andy. You know he prefers to be referred to as Andrew K. Benton and as president of Seaver College he deserves it.
7. HAWK. Nothing works me up more than this common misspelling. Howard A. White Center not Kenter. Come on folks you go there every day. Spell it right.
8. The Caf. At some point in Pepperdine’s history students decided “The Waves Cafe” was too cheesy and royal a term for our communal watering hole and invented this abrupt abbreviation. I suppose in this instance the “Waves Cafe” is the true failure. Can’t say giving it a nickname was a bad idea.
9. The Oasis. Yes because it’s surrounded by vast desert drought and famine. There are no nearby sources of sustenance and the arid three-minute walk from your dorm left you just famished. Then miraculously like a mirage a pizza and sandwich stand appeared cheerful Sodexo employees waving you in with palm leaves. Who thought of this ingenious title?
10. The “stairway to heaven”. It’s not a method of getting to the CCB— it’s a Led Zeppelin song.
