I HATE SNARKY by Steve Nadis
There’s a new word circulating around these days, and I’d like to put a stop to it. Call me a stick-in-the-mud, call me a curmudgeon, call me a jabbernow, but I hate the word “snarky.” I don’t know what it means and don’t want to know, though I sense it’s popular in “cyber” circles. Even bloggers, whom I consider to be the last bastion of sanity, are using it. But that will soon end. I promise never to use the word again. Now it’s up to you to do your part. For starters, please don’t refer to this site as “Call Me Snark.”
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22:29:10
You are way ahead of me. I have been hating this word only since about the middle of 2006. That’s when it seems to have burst on to the scene here in Sacramento. Mostly it’s on blogs, but it’s found its way into the newspaper.
Mostly, I’ve found that, in the papers, it is used by the “society-type” reporters. The ones that report on the bar scene, the restaurant scene and the local media scene. I get the sense that they are very conscious of their own use of the word and that they congratulate themselves for being so hip when they throw it into a column. Sometimes I think that they sit around and create whole stories just so they can fit in that word.
Nicely put, RIP. You just might have earned yourself a highly-sought-after “Celebrity Guest Comment.”
You are smart,only smart person can do such a smart job.
I hate the word “snark” so much that a Google search brought me to your page this morning. Makes my blood boil.
Well, Anon, it appears we have that in common… S