Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 27, 2004, 19:16 |
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:46:41AM -0700, Gary Shannon wrote:
> Out of curiosity, where are people encountering this?
In conversations with young people who frequently use interactive
text-based conversational media (chat, instant messaging, cell phone
"texting", MMORPGs, etc). If you talk to a typical teenager who hangs
out on IRC or EverQuest, you'll likely hear this stuff all the time.
And it's spreading from them to older people. My wife even says "the
suck" now - jocularly, to be sure, but that's how it starts. :)
-Marcos
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