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Latest update: October 31, 2000
On this forum we share stories of the encounters we have with words we've come across in class, lectures, readings.a
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On Wednesday, October 25, 2000, Jaitee Speed and Michael Planck and Tina Juen and Donna Woods began a dialog on the meaning of "because" in sociology.
On Sunday, October 29, 2000, Valencia Ross wrote:
"I wanted to share my first entry in my vocabulary list. The word is malapropism, which means a ludicrous or humorous misuse of a word. I stumbled across this word while reading an article about Bush and Gore in the Times Magazine. I had a friend in high [school] that would always use malapropisms; however, I do not think he was using them intentionally."
White Boy Shuffle: Vocabulary drawn from White Boy Shuffle