by radium April 5, 2009
Get the English Major mug.An English Major is a university student or any literate person who engages in close extensive reading. With their "expertise" in literature, they seem to think that they are experts of language and like to critisize other people's usage of the English language.
Can be applied to any one who judges word usage without at least a master's degree in Linguistics.
Can be applied to any one who judges word usage without at least a master's degree in Linguistics.
So the other day I was like totes and this total English Major was like "Totes? I see... A shorter more convenient form of the word: totally. This word is most commonly used by teenage girls.
The most obvious advantage of using this word is the time saved. Data collected at a prestigious university found that every syllable spoken takes approximately 0.14 seconds.
The same prestigious university also found that the average valley girl says the word totally around 190 times a day."
And I was like yeah umm I gotta go do an analysis in the acoustic phonetics lab. And the English Major was all like acoustic phonetta what?
The most obvious advantage of using this word is the time saved. Data collected at a prestigious university found that every syllable spoken takes approximately 0.14 seconds.
The same prestigious university also found that the average valley girl says the word totally around 190 times a day."
And I was like yeah umm I gotta go do an analysis in the acoustic phonetics lab. And the English Major was all like acoustic phonetta what?
by 1VicAsh1 March 30, 2011
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Derivatives: "Englsih major," ""enlish major," and the like.
n. An English major who unintentionally defies the stereotypes of the typical student in the program, typically enrolled due to a hyper fixation on a certain field of study, with disregard to, or lack of skills in other aspects of the major.
An English major may be an Egnlish major for a few examples:
1. They may enjoy reading and could read an entire piece of literature in one sitting, but may lack enough writing skills for you to question how they even got into college.
2. They have writing skills that combat the talent of Shakespeare, Austen, or Milton, but if you ask them to take the time to read just a single line of text from their work, you will give them an aneurysm as they hate reading.
3. They went into the English major as a result of being undecided but obligated to enroll in college, but somehow became the most successful and talented student in the English department.
n. An English major who unintentionally defies the stereotypes of the typical student in the program, typically enrolled due to a hyper fixation on a certain field of study, with disregard to, or lack of skills in other aspects of the major.
An English major may be an Egnlish major for a few examples:
1. They may enjoy reading and could read an entire piece of literature in one sitting, but may lack enough writing skills for you to question how they even got into college.
2. They have writing skills that combat the talent of Shakespeare, Austen, or Milton, but if you ask them to take the time to read just a single line of text from their work, you will give them an aneurysm as they hate reading.
3. They went into the English major as a result of being undecided but obligated to enroll in college, but somehow became the most successful and talented student in the English department.
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