ghetto : when something is cheap and nasty. I wonder if my colleague who uses this word has actually lived in a ghetto? Has the black-white divide in this country become so transparent that a word - used formerly to describe jewish enclaves but used for for predominantly african-american and hispanic enclaves of very poor people - has become a universally identified with a degraded state of existence?
mad prop : something that works, something that is good. I cannot fathom where this word came from.
getting digits : a verb describing the act of trying to obtain a telephone number from somebody.
