Residence Life & Housing

Transcript

[Narrator]
The evolution of the word dorm, from the Latin dormitorium, is one of the most interesting tales in the English language. This flexible word can be used to convey fear, smallness, disgust, bad decor and unhygienic living conditions. Dorm can be found in nearly every grammatical category.
Noun.

[Male Student]
Frankly, I don't give a dorm, or half of one. I want a private room!

[Narrator]
Adjective modifying another adjective.

[Female Student]
These green metal bunk beds are pretty dorm ugly.

[Narrator]
Interjection.

[Male Student]
Dorm dude! This room is tiny!

[Narrator]
And there aren't many other words in the English language that can express the variety of conditions that dorm can. Panic.

[Female Student]
One dorm bathroom for everyone on this floor?

[Narrator]
Odor.

[Male Student]
Y'all are gonna need a lot of air freshener to get out that dorm smell.

[Narrator]
Filth.

[Female Students]
Out, out dorm spot! The last residents left this place so dirty!

[Narrator]
Dorm can also be used as part of several other words as in:

[Male Students]
This food is dorms-gusting. Let's go eat that dead rat we found in our room.

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or..

[Female Students]
This room is like not at all a-dorm-able! A bathroom at a gas station has like way more style!

[Narrator]
That's why the D-word is taboo at IU Southeast. We don't use it because you shouldn't have to live in it.

[Announcer]
Please note that IU Southeast does not have dorms. We have lodges with private apartments including full kitchens, appliances, private bathrooms, high-speed wireless Internet and more.

[Male Student]
Where am I going to do my dorm pilates?

[Group of Students]
Live on campus!

[Male Student]
Dude!