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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Word I've quickly grown tired of

"Snarky."

Posted at 2:44 PM | Permalink

Comments (15)

Dave? David Letterman, is that you?

Posted by The One True b!X | January 5, 2005 3:02 PM

Sadness! This is one of my favorite words.

If I could -- with a great, big red pen -- remove any instance of the words "glitterati" or "solutions-oriented," I would be delighted.

Posted by TJ | January 5, 2005 3:03 PM

That cuts. That cuts deeply.

Posted by Betsy | January 5, 2005 3:29 PM

Now now, Betsy. I said that as snarkily as I could.

Posted by Jack Bog | January 5, 2005 4:37 PM

English is cluttered with old onomatopoeiae. We should come up with something new...

DAWG

HAHAHA

Posted by JIM W. | January 5, 2005 6:05 PM

I find it's a word that makes people bristle when they could be described as such.

Posted by al | January 5, 2005 7:05 PM

I'm with you. I immediately and irrationally dislike anyone using that word. It drives me absolutely crazy and I swear I'm not grumpy as I write this. "Whatnot" is a close second for me.

Posted by Grady | January 5, 2005 10:22 PM

Has Dave been talking about "snarky"? I just watched him for the first time in a few weeks, and he and Marv Albert were talking about "snarky." I had no idea.

Posted by Jack Bog | January 6, 2005 12:27 AM

Well, working as I do for a site with "snark" in its tagline, I feel obligated to defend it only to the degree that it was once a useful word, before it was co-opted by forces who use it to cover any form of complaint, whether particularly intelligent or not. I agree with you that now, I am never happy to see it. And no longer use it myself.

Posted by Linda | January 6, 2005 8:16 AM

My annoying word of the moment is "amazing". As in "Ashlee Simpson is amazing". Or "Madden 2005 is amazing". I kept hearing this and thinking "no, Kreskin is amazing. Ashlee Simpson is simply astonishing." Then I realized amazing is the new awesome.

Speaking of words that need to go, has anyone seen Groening's list of banned words for 2005? I missed them.

Posted by Chris | January 6, 2005 8:18 AM

I would agree with you, for the reasons Linda gave, and I don't ever use it myself anymore -- but it sure was useful before it was ruined.

Posted by Sheila | January 6, 2005 9:28 AM

My friends and I use it... but we don't /overuse/ it. Then again, we also have respectable vocabulary skills...

Posted by GreyDuck | January 6, 2005 11:44 AM

And here I was...so proud of the fact that a Google search on 'snarky whim' led you directly to my front door.

I guess that's so 2004. But - what should I be using instead, oh arbiters of taste...?

Posted by Betsy | January 6, 2005 11:07 PM

IMO the most annoying word trend of two-ought-ought-four, by far, was "annoying." And it silently subsumed most in its field.

Posted by Sally | January 7, 2005 3:01 PM

Did "snark" just "jump the shark"?

Although I'm as guilty as anyone of abusing the phrase, I've grown weary of hearing that so-and-so "really drank the kool-aid."

It is just so sad to waste such a vivid politically incorrect mental image of people who are committed to following through on a bad idea (such as Jonestown cult members participating in a mass suicide with dixie cups).

Maybe it could be updated to so-and-so "castrated himself, laced up his Nikes and is out chasing the comet."

Posted by PanchoPdx | January 14, 2005 11:43 AM

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