Patna, Jan. 9: It is a “black day” in college…. “aschalu ghanti”.

Sounds Greek? Unless you are a college student, deciphering the meaning of the two “phrases” is mission impossible. But if you are and still not aware of what they mean, it’s high time you update yourself.

These two are popular “campus lingo” codes, folks. Overshooting the old school linguistic domains, the college students go beyond to invent their own expressions.

It is here that the desi meets modern. Meet the new-age inventors of a contemporary and cool lingo, the campus regulars.

For them, a “black day” is not a day to protest. It stands for no theory classes. And a period to be bunked is coded as aschalu ghanti.

“‘Group tadi’ stands for bunking classes and is the most popular word used in our college. Also, a bookworm is called a ‘Vidyasagar’,” chuckled Anuja Akhouri, a student of LN Mishra Institute.

“‘Out of focus’ is a common word with us. We use it for students trying to be over smart,” giggled Ishant, a student of RPS Engineering College.

Inspired by advertisement jingles, Bollywood one-liners and popular songs, every college has its own lingo.

“We used to greet everyone by saying ‘aiwa’ and a humble 90 degree bow. A person who does not know the city well is given the title of ‘chhaja’. Someone who has partied all night is called ‘baghera’,” said Saurav Ranjan, who recently completed his engineering course from a college in the state capital.

Talking about catchwords related to girls, Supriya Singh who is pursuing MBA, said: “Girls with a lot of air are called ‘asmuchadipipa’ and those who throw tantrums are referred to as ‘dhaan paan dhano’.”

Even abbreviations are used often.

BTMC (Behenji turning modern in confusion) is commonly used for college girls who have a loud sense of fashion.

The spirit of fun and enjoyment is such that even a bad score in examinations fails to dampen efforts to come up with funny phrases.

“Whenever somebody gets poor marks in our group, we try to cheer her up by saying ‘sab mohmaya hai’,” said Anuja with a queer sense of philosophy.

Illogical but amusing, the lingua franca of GenerationY lets one enjoy the guilty pleasures of speaking it aloud and that too as the disciplinarians say — without any unconstitutional language.

Salute to street-smart lingo!