Sunday, March 18, 2007

meh, I have been using it for a while

Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet


How was my weekend? Meh. The mehness of it is indescribable. Just one big, fat meh. If you are an old-media kind of reader, "meh" won't mean a whole lot to you. The word has appeared in the national press three times in the past year. If you gain new vocabulary from conversation, it is probably unfamiliar. If you can't be torn from the web, however, you will almost certainly know it, and its meaning.

Meh means rubbish. It means boring. It means not worth the effort, who cares, so-so, whatever. It is the all-purpose dismissive shrug of the blogger and messageboarder. And it is ubiquitous. On the I Love Music messageboard, for example, 4,010 separate discussion threads feature the use of "meh". - The Guardian
I have been using this word on and offline for years now. So my response to this article is "meh"

1 comment:

Joel Nothman said...

You forgot to read the rest of the article, or at least to mention the interesting suggestion that "meh" comes from Yiddish... so of course you've been usign it for ages.