Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

John Cowan wrote:

>Mark J. Reed scripsit:
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>>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 . . .)
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>We now have three forms:
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>	It bombed (it failed; U.S.)
>	It did a bomb (it succeeded; U.K.)
>	It's the bomb (it's good)
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I've never heard of the second(as a UKer).  The former, and the latter,
though.