Scene: A bunch of people in a general conversation. Three students and two professors.
A New Topic: What was the daughter of one of the professors doing !
Past Info in the group: She was looking to join an under-grad school. Which school was the question
Professor Says:
She is going to Wash U.
Thunder burst out laughing !!!!!
She was just going to the 'Washington University, St Loius", which was universally said and understood as "Wash U"!!!!
The truth of the matter is these days, everything has an abbreviation.. Ther is no time left in the world to speak every word in its details. And once in a while, the sentence parts of verb and noun, subject and predicate fall in such a precise place that the whole sentence is mind-blowingly ....
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