the world

[Mullins, Bill]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Sent: 9/28/2004 7:15 PM
>Subject: Re: the world
>
>In the VN era, "the world" meant the USA - if you were overseas. "The
>real world" was a variant, and for all I know the original. (Nowadays
>you hear the "real world"  in graduate school and instutional and
>semi-institutional settings, referring to anyplace but.)
>
>Statistically, one would expect that "the world" went from the
>conscripted to the convicted, rather than vice versa.

So, which is grad school -- conscripted, or convicted?? <G>