Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> 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
>
Hmmm.  That's odd because I'm a big MMORPG fan,
especially EQ, and I'm just not hearing anything like
that in /OOC or /TELL or even guild chat.  How odd.

Could we be living in parallel universes?

--gary

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