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Please stop using snark. Use snide, sarcastic, or cynical instead. Snark is a word that's better off being forgotten in some dictionary of colloquial terms.
by Asterick6 13y ago
Please stop using snark. Use snide, sarcastic, or cynical instead. Snark is a word that's better off being forgotten in some dictionary of colloquial terms.
- jlgreco 13y agoWhy? Snark seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
- brymaster 13y ago"Snark" is one of those words that people first learned on HN and now reuse whenever there is a comment they don't like.
- jlgreco 13y ago"Snark" means "snide remark" and is absolutely not an HNism. Hell, I think I learned it from my mother (who no doubt used it at me). Despite heavy use, the word retains clear meaning, even as used by stanleydrew above in his otherwise foolish comment. It is a perfectly cromulent word.