Send to Friend | The Cornell Daily Sun

Send to Friend

From	To
Email: * First Name: Last Name: Send a copy to myself	Email: * First Name: Last Name:

CAPTCHA

This question is used to make sure you are a human visitor and to prevent spam submissions.

What code is in the image?: *

Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.

Daze Story from The Cornell Daily Sun

Message Text:

Tell It Like It Is

Cornell’s diverse campus makes for equally rich lexicon

January 31, 2008 - 1:00am
By Julie Block

Not gonna lie, my introduction to that particular phrase occured during Cornell Days. I was an overenthusiastic prefrosh already self-conscious about my own Midwestern slang, and having never heard what was supposedly normal lingo in the East made me feel even more of an outsider. What did they mean, “not gonna lie?” Shouldn’t it be assumed that you were generally telling the truth when you spoke?