General Information:

         Verbal Lore, Slang

         Language: English

         Country of Origin: United States

         Informant: Nina Prakash

         Date Collected: Oct 12, 2021

         Location Collected: Wheeler Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Informant Data: Nina Prakash is a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2025 studying biomedical engineering. She lives McLean, Virginia, but is originally from Chicago, Illinois. She attended the Sidwell Friends school in Washington D.C prior to coming to Dartmouth. At Dartmouth, she is involved in Dartmouth EMS and the Club Tennis Team. Her hobbies include playing tennis, cooking, and being with friends.

Contextual Data:

Social Context: This folklore is collected in Wheeler Hall. The word “facetimey” was mentioned when the informant was asked about a piece of Dartmouth slang which they resonated with. The informant learned this term on first year trips from her trips leaders. Trip leaders often pass words like these down, which is a common method by which freshmen attain knowledge of Dartmouth slang. Trip leaders somewhat act as a bridge between ones’ home culture and Dartmouth culture. All Dartmouth students know this word, but it is largely used by upperclassmen

Cultural Context: People at Dartmouth tend to be extroverted, so a large proportion of Dartmouth students tend to be constantly socializing and talking with friends. Certain Dartmouth spaces, such as the first floor of Berry Library, Baker Lobby, and FOCO are spaces where a lot of Dartmouth students linger and social people tend to spend time there saying hello to friends and chatting.

Item: Facetimey: Definition: Someone who is very social and will frequently stop on social spaces on campus to say hello to and talk to people; Example: “That girl is so facetimey. She was in FFB for 30 minutes talking to her friends on her way to write her english paper.”

Associated File:

Informant’s Comments: Informant says that this term can be either derogatory or positive depending on the context by which it was said. Nina said, “Some upperclassmen make fun of underclassmen by calling them Facetimey, but Facetimey is generally considered a positive or neutral word”

Collector’s Comments: I believe that the informant is quite Facetimey from personal experience, so I think that she has a good grip on the meaning and implications of the word

Collector’s Name:  Colin Kearns

Tags/ Keywords:

FA21

Dartmouth

Verbal Lore

Slang

Social

Title: Layup

General Information:

         Verbal Lore, Slang

         Language: English

         Country of Origin: United States

         Informants: Alex Misiaszek

         Date Collected: November 5th, 2021

         Location Collected: McCullouch Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Informant Data: 

Alex Misiaszek is a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2025 studying Biology on a pre-Medical Track. He is from McLean, Virginia, but now lives in Charleston, South Carolina. His main campus involvement used to be the Division 1 Swimming Team, but he has recently stepped back from it.

Contextual Data:

Social Context: I collected this folklore in the McCullouch at Dartmouth College. The informant said that he learned this word while selecting classes from friends, and that they learned it from upperclassmen. This word is known by virtually all Dartmouth Students

Cultural Context: Dartmouth is known for being a very academically challenging school. Therefore, students try to lighten their course load by taking less academically demanding or work intensive courses, called “layups.” Students who are taking two other difficult classes in a term will often be on the hunt for a layup.

Item: Layup; definition: A conceptually easy, low-workload course that people tend to take when they are in other difficult classes; example: “I’m taking COSC 50 and ECON 20 next term, I’m really going to need a layup”

Informant’s Comments: The informant said that his Writing 5 class, which is a class that all first year students need to take, was a layup. He is in an honors biology class, so he said he chose this layup so that he could have more time to do other things. He said that this word comes from basketball, and “Like you are close to the net in basketball and don’t need to run during a layup, you do not need to do a lot of work in a layup class.”

Collector’s Comments: I think that it is a good idea to take a layup if you are doing 2 other time demanding classes. Next term I am doing a difficult engineering class and a time consuming computer science class, so I chose to do an easy writing class so that I do not become overwhelmed and have time to enjoy myself.

Collector’s Name: Colin Kearns

Tags/ Keywords:

FA21

Dartmouth

Verbal Lore

Slang

Academic