Original article titled "A 'Snark' Hunt on Lexicon Valley"
October 20, 2014
By Ben Zimmer
As I told Mike and Bob, snark took off among the digerati around 2002, when the site Television Without Pity
grew out of some previous incarnations, devoted to recapping TV shows
in a playfully caustic manner. The recappers were proudly snarky,
to use an informal adjective that has meant "irritable
Published on October 21, 2014 16:44