Editor’s Note
By Dylan Leavitt, The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Friday, July 24, 2009
Flashback: it’s the end of Spring term, and I’m sitting outside of Collis “studying,” “getting facetime,” or “people-watching,”—whatever you want to call it. Anyway, I’ll admit to eavesdropping: a couple of ’12’s are to my right, babbling about how much work they have and how annoyed they are about their boys. One of them exclaims, “Are you guys going to LNC tonight?” I must’ve looked like a cartoon character my shock was so unreal: What in Jim Kim’s good name is LNC? And then it dawned on me. Late. Night. Collis. Apparently, kids these days are not only throwing around abbreves (lol) with legitimately long words, but they have also begun streamlining terms that already have a certain cache around here. I started wondering how lingo here forms and evolves — booting and rallying had to come from somewhere. In our insular Dartmouth community, Dartspeak is just another example of how community is developed; it gives incoming students a way to casually assimilate while reflecting college ideals and, well, embarrassments. The Mirror this week explores the influence of words on this campus and, to be perfectly honest, just gives me the opportunity to say this: ’shmen: stop trying to make LNC happen.