Fail as an adjective

Karl Hagen karl at POLYSYLLABIC.COM
Thu Jul 9 14:15:34 UTC 2009


I've seen the discussion of nominalized "fail", but it's also being used as a
predicate adjective, as I discovered yesterday when I overheard a teenager
saying to his friends "I'm so fail".

This construction gets more than a few g-hits. Brief commentary here:

http://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=node/249

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