The Valpo Core Reader
 

Authors

Michael Forster

Document Type

Definition Essay

Publication Date

1986

Excerpt

My favorite slang term of late has come to symbolize much more than its initially crude connotation; it has grown to envelop and define a very private, intimate circle of friends. What began a few months ago as a way to insult some one without stooping to the gauche, unrefined, and high-schoolish "F--- you!" has surpassed any possible preconception or wildest expectation of what its germination might yield and has blossomed into a virtual dictionary of nonverbal communication. The term "Two words... " has come to convey any one of a hundred different messages. "Two words" is the "aloha" of Valparaiso University (or at least my little corner of VU).

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