meh-ness

[Jonathan Lighter]

_Mad_ magazine used to use "feh," which  expressed, I believe, slightly greater disapproval.

  JL

Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> A Language Log post of potential interest to ADS-Lers:
>
> "Meh-ness to society"
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003238.html
>
> Comments welcome.

My comment is that I was struck with the timeliness of it, as
in the last few weeks I've noticed it appearing with great
frequency in a few online fora I read. This is likely some
artifact (i.e. that I never noticed it before but it's been
there all along), but my immediate reaction was "Why is it
always that within seconds of some meme reaching my brain I
discover that Ben's already written about it?"

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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