The sweet, humid smell of spring at Duke often reminds me of a day about four years ago, when I moved into Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory on East Campus. I remember it in flashes: Beautiful campus. Sweat...
In my four years at Duke, I have noticed changes in our University’s co-curricular world.
Slam poet Mayda Del Valle minced no words when she took Reynolds Auditorium by storm last week: “And I’m speaking in tongues / blending proper with street talk / everyday meets academic /...
The weather is warming up, the shanties in K-ville are empty and Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Is it February already?
With 2010 behind us, I had fun over break looking at different dictionaries’ and publications’ lists of “the new words of 2010.” Sociolinguistic commentators always have a field day around every...
What do you drink? No, I’m not interested in your bar habits. I’m asking about the fizzy pop in your can at lunch.
Language is powerful. As our primary medium of communication, it affects us in ways that even physical interactions cannot.
Abbreviations are wonderful.
My friends and I were on the C-1 bus a few weekends ago, leaving an off-East Campus house to get to West and catch the Robertson bus to Chapel Hill. I had just turned 21, and I was looking forward...
Becoming multilingual is difficult, I think, not only because of the time involved in learning a second or third language, but also because a language is the repository of a culture.
