"full of win"

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> 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"

a count use, not the mass use Neal was talking about:

... Mark Liberman's report on the "Top 10 translation fails of 2008";
the most entertaining to me is a more general fail, ...
    (http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003385.php on 1/25/09; note
count use)
  ML, 1/25/09: Rational use of Russian bowels:
   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1063

so it's like "ask", "swear", and many other count nounings.

arnold

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