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01 Aug 2011, 2:08 am

Luckily I know quite a few "snarky" people and plus, I THRIVE on snark. Ask my mother, I am a snarky dastard most of the time =D



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01 Aug 2011, 2:46 am

League_Girl wrote:
I keep seeing the words snark or condescending and I get lost with them. I read posts and then people mention those words and I just don't see a snark. People say things like "I am not being snarky, this is just a honest question" and I wonder how is that snarky? Why would I think it be snarky? Then when people say something is condescending, I wonder how is it condescending. I seeing nothing condescending in it.

I can't think of other words right now that confuse me but these are the top two since I see them a lot at babycenter.


Anyone else with this problem?


I don't have that problem. I love words. :heart:

I guess it could be because I've always communicated better through writing than speaking. With writing I get the chance to plan out what I'm going to say and consider how it's going to sound. As a student/writer/blogger I've had to learn to understand what my words will mean to my professors/readers when they are read. I don't always get it right, but I've gotten a lot better at it if I do say so myself. :D

Now if I'm talking out loud or having a conversation, chances are that I am going to get accused of being "snarky" or "condescending" and then I'm usually like "what I didn't say anything like that????" Sometimes I'll say something that sounded totally okay in my head and once it's said the other person will tell me that I'm being rude or that what I said was inappropriate.

Some people just take offense to things or worry that others will take offense to them. :roll: It's all so horribly confusing.



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01 Aug 2011, 3:20 am

I group similar words together.

The first time that I ever did this was as a very young child.
My older brother had just started school and mum told me he was in a "class room".
Because "class" sounds like "glass" I assumed that the the room was made of glass.



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01 Aug 2011, 4:01 am

animalcrackers wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
The Internet solved a lot of it for me, since I can easily google words when I realize I'm using one because it "fits" but I don't actually know what it means.


Yay for search engines! I do that too. On the whole, it helps--although sometimes I just don't understand the definitions/info I find.


Always a risk, but it too happens less and less.