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Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 15:25
John Cowan wrote:

>Mark J. Reed scripsit: > > > >>Well, I've certainly encountered it. In speech I first noticed it with >>"the" (e.g. "That is the suck!", analogous to its antonym "That is the >>bomb!", which is good even though "It totally bombed!" is bad . . .) >> >> > >We now have three forms: > > It bombed (it failed; U.S.) > It did a bomb (it succeeded; U.K.) > It's the bomb (it's good) > >
I've never heard of the second(as a UKer). The former, and the latter, though.