CAMPUS SLANG

• Who theorised campus slang?

  Tony Thorne
• examples

  Brittney (spears) = beers

  to flake = drop out of social engagement

  peng = attractive person

  canning it = overdoing things

  chucking a benny = losing control

  trolleyed = drunk
• why do students create campus slang?

  to describe surroundings, experiences and obsessions

  a badge of identity

  way of excluding outsiders

  forming relationships

  banter
• what were the patterns and trends Thorne found?

  talk more about alcohol and getting drunk than education

  like to take about an activity that is symbolic and evoked feelings of sociability and shared pleasures

  talk more about finances and money compared to 20/30 years ago