"sophomore CD" etc. (Was Re: sidebar to recent discussion of southmore)

Gregory {Greg} Downing gd2 at IS2.NYU.EDU
Thu May 25 02:36:18 UTC 2000


>At 10:05 PM 5/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>Have Listmembers encountered the fairly recent usage of "sophomore" to mean:
>>the second of a sequence
>>(analogous to "freshman" meaning the first, the initial one -- as in "your
>>freshman --followed by your sophomore-- year in college)?
>>

And before it was a music-industry term it was a college-student term -- the
dreaded "sophomore slump" was a well-discussed phenomenon when I was in
college 20 years ago.


Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu



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