[Ads-l] Elvavr=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A5let_?=in the US?

[Barretts Mail]

Since there are two instances, there are likely many more, whether inspired by Sweden or not.

The cachet notwithstanding, I’m going to bet that elvavrålet isn’t going to make the ADS word-of-the-year list. BB

> On 29 Mar 2020, at 13:45, Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
> 
> I just saw mention of this in Globe Magazine today, but in the context of Boston University and exam week: yup, students opening windows and screaming/shouting at 2 AM. There wasn't a particular term applied, but the behavior is parallel.
> 
> ---Amy West
> 
> On 3/29/20 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
>> Date:    Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:05:38 -0400
>> From:    Mark Mandel<markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Elvavrålet in the US?
>> 
>> For those who, like me, don't know Swedish, or at least not the word:
>> 
>> Elvavrålet (Swedish: the eleven roar) is a student tradition where students
>> at universities and colleges at a certain time every night in student
>> residential areas (22:00 or 23:00, on Lappkärrsberget only Tuesdays) open
>> their windows, go out onto balconies or rooftops and scream to relieve
>> stress.
>> 
>> The roar is also called the Delphi roar (after the student residential area
>> Delphi in Lund), the Flogsta roar,[1][2] (after the neighborhood Flogsta in
>> Uppsala) the Lappkärr cry (after the neighborhood Lappkärrsberget in
>> Stockholm), the Ten cry, the Tuesday scream or Anxiety scream. The
>> phenomenon has been known since the 1970s, and has been the subject of
>> academic papers.
>> *[citation needed] *
>> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvavr%C3%A5let]

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