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It’s been established many times over that Boston College has its own language. When I return home, I often feel that I change my vernacular to suit that of my non-BC peers, as many other BC students ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Paasewe is the author of "How Black College Students Learn Code-Switching" and the Founder/CEO of The Code-Switcher.

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...

DETROIT – Code-switching is defined as the ability to switch between languages in a single conversation. For example, you may speak more casually at home than you do at work. But for Black people, ...