Snark
Julia Thompson
degges at chiba.3jane.net
Tue May 13 06:37:11 PDT 2008
On Tue, 13 May 2008, sendai wrote:
> 2008/5/13 Ronn! Blankenship <ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net>:
>> At 05:23 PM Monday 5/12/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
>> > "snarkasm" - snark + sarcasm.
>> >
>> >http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snark
>>
>> Are you suggesting it is redundant?
> I think it's redundant. To my mind, most sarcasm is meant to be snarky
> (fitting the definition of sarcasm along the way.)
>
>>
>> Perhaps For Emphasis Maru
> To emphasise sarchasm?
>
>>
>> . . . ronn! :)
>
> --
> - sendai
It was sarcasm with some extra bite to it, was the thing.
Plus, this was a mailing list on which you can make up any ol' word you
want, and if it *looks* cromulent, it'll fly.
Julia
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