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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Pocket dictionary of modern Californian acronyms

ABC - American Born Chinese, i.e. Americans of Chinese extraction (totally polite expression)
BS - Bull sh...t, i.e. a light form of an impolite expression
PC - Political Correctness, Politically Correct
UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles; also: University of Chinese among Lost Americans, for the big proportion of Asians at that university
USC - University of Southern California; also: University of Second Choice or University of Spoiled Children, because it is a private university where the children of rich people that did not make it to UCLA go

[to be continued]

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