Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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IT IS at the Flush'? Or, he pleads Please translate 'cream run, a burger run, and pigging out at Terrible? The professors gasp and hold their Prentice Hall close to their hearts hoping desperately that it will survive the onslaught of Auburnese. Polling their eyes heavenward, professors are heard to mumble hail Webster, Norton's Anthology, and Brown's Reader. The natives smile with secret supremacy, class is the pits anyway, and it's almost time to hit the U.B. and see whatzhappen. Auburnese doesn't rely on bookin it. So students wander over to the U.B. or the onion building after class to gossip with friends. Watchyalldoin? initiates the usual grunting responses of Nothin or Fixin to chow or just checking out what's happen. Before leaving the cafeteria, explana- tions for the exit are usually given: gotta go crash, the rack monster's callin, or Cotta go visit Ralph Dragoon Library ' or Cotta attend class, I'm enrolled in university, y'know. Only someone well grounded in Auburnese can translate these or any daily conversations on campus. Foreign language instructors beware — we've got our own, and it doesn't go by the rules.