"full of win"

[Mark Mandel]

Today on the tech site ZDNET (
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=1204&tag=nl.e539)
Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus
far<http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=219839950-31c61b4cfb7d3bba57e7bed0062f2bf4-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5>

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
> > from
> >   The Buzzwords of 2008
> >   By MARK LEIBOVICH and GRANT BARRETT
> >   NYT Week in Review 12/21/08:
> >
> > Largely used online, this is a verb turned into a mass noun, as in “A
> > bucket of fail.” Common forms include _epic fail_, meaning a huge
> > overall tendency toward failure or a great example of failure, and
> > FAIL! as an interjection or derogation. Often an antonym of win, seen
> > online in forms like “Full of win!” which means, “It’s good!”
>
> I used "made of win" in a press release recently; although the kids I
> was talking about knew what I meant, the editors had serious problems
> (to the point of changing my wording).
>

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