Fail as an adjective

[Kari Castor]

"Win" is commonly used the same way, especially among us wacky internet
geeks and gamers.


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Karl Hagen <karl at polysyllabic.com> wrote:

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> I've seen the discussion of nominalized "fail", but it's also being used as
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> predicate adjective, as I discovered yesterday when I overheard a teenager
> saying to his friends "I'm so fail".
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> This construction gets more than a few g-hits. Brief commentary here:
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> http://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=node/249
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