Snowclone studying: "Is The New"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 05:05:12PM -0700, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> > A project "documents every instance of the phrase 'is the new'
> > encountered from various sources in 2005."
> >
> > http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html
>
> AZ, 1/18/07: A full year of The New Y:
>  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004059.html

Huh. I thought it seemed a little familiar, but it was reported
somewhere as a new thing. Sorry....

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