Not one of the faithful.
Get banned for speaking up.
Let the professional bullshitters do it.
What's that, you ask? What version of "Store" Do I have?
I should know (right?) in case it needs updating...
OK forget it, nevermind
Actually the sound was down but the scene was familiar.
I imagine Spock could have said in one of those familiar scenes,
"Vulcans could teach you a thing or two about being snarky,"
Because if vulcans are anything it's belittling.
At least they are in later versions of the Trek,
because writers pad scenes more and more with pointless dialogue.
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Pointless things star trek does: Apply a thick layer of cold-cream to Data and his brother, and give them orange eyes. (That was a rant from looking at my TV screen; please ignore it)
This was a (really bad) attempt to show a typical train-of-thought, in a mumbly sort of a way.
What does Snarky mean? Where did it come from?
I was sure until a minute ago it was internet-based and was two words (snide and sarcastic) stuck together.
In other words, I thought "Snarky" had internet-forum origins
(Like maybe "Shakes head sadly" or "facepalm")
Well maybe it does, because you can't expect 14-year-old-kids to remember back to 1906...Maybe it's a "Morph" of an actual word no one uses anymore.
I happen to own a 90's desktop-dictionary, pre internet, that bugs use as low-cost housing...if I can shake off most of the bugs, I'll look it up and really see if some internet-wag made it up or is it part of the official lexicon. No, they made it all up "1906" indeed.
I'll expect some firemen will show up to burn my dictionary (a really BIG dictionary too)
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| Banned!! Too snarky "Toxic" |
They're gonna rewrite history with you watching...
It's a controversial thing right now, who gets to rewrite what??
I still contend that the internet users were oblivious to anything from 1906.
On a page from (It says "1999" but I have doubts, unless it's from print)
I have an actual fossil!
The people, misguided, pretentious but there it is, in all its stark naked glory:
NO?
OK I give up, but there's modern usage and arcane.
"Snarky" was sure-as-hell arcane til some damn politician, radio-host or letter-writer exhumed it.
I swear.
I just can't prove it.
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| Thank You!! I can Finally rest in Peace now. |
The example I'm giving is the next day after being shocked by higher prices at my friendly neighborhood supermarket.
The drug-store pulled its usual act of having an enormously high price, then lowering it through coupons and discounts, But the drug-store's coupons are computerized and were automatically added, praise drug stores (and their Machiavellian ways.)
The *supermarket* still mails coupons, one step beyond those freebie newspaper coupons I never use, but I did not bring their coupons, newspaper or otherwise, and paid the price for that faux-pas.
Stuff is 25c to 1.00 more per item, but doubtless you never pay that, you're smart enough to buy from cheaper stores farther away, and you tote coupons.
Anyway,
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| https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/18/business/grocery-store-inflation-kroger-albertsons/index.html "Snarky" or unvarnished Truth? |
I saw the movie personally and I still don't get why the actor Anthony Hopkins makes that weird noise with his tongue.
If I were trying to imitate him, I might say "I like Ice Cream with ssssssssssssssssprinkles."
A really mean teacher from a communist country used to have this way of snarkily laughing at his own snarky remarks. Sort of (in print) Thp-thp-thp as if he were trying to return to stern and staid.
No one else laughed at his jokes, they were usually cruel and sadistic.
So Snarky has been around forever, it was just never called that.
thin-lipped wry and sardonic humor, not fit for frivolous laughter, more befitting a beheading.
elicit pain without being too obvious about it, like a hooded executioner making furtive hand gestures.
"We've got a new game coming out"
"If it's like the Lasssssst one, Let's mourn the one before (thp thp thp)"
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I was done....
I really was...….
but something is nagging me to wonder about usage, or style.
There's talking-English, writing English.
English for "The Atlantic" or "National Review" and everyday English you'd rather *say* than write (because, who writes, except in blogs? Forums, OK)
Sharp-witted vs perspicacious (oooo, "perspicacious," aren't WE republican)
Anyway no one says "Mordant" unless they're writing a quaint tome of curious lore (no one ever says quaint, tome, curious (strange), lore.
No one here, anyway.)
"Snarky" is a shorter dress, unpleated pants, Nike shoes (instead of "Vans")
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