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Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:14 pm**

Okay.

I've been meaning to make this thread for a loooong time, but never really got around to doing it. The reason for this thread? Simple. People misunderstanding the definition of the word "smirk".

So many times have I seen such misuses as #me smirks kindly, #me smirks softly. No no no no no!

There's a character who I thought was either a nasty piece of work or hated my character for a whole year, before I found out that all the while he'd been happy.

I don't mind people misusing things like "grins" to mean "smiles", because they're much the same. But using "smirks" in a positive way is like someone saying "I hate you" to show their love for someone.

definition wrote:smirk [smurk] [smɜrk]
–verb (used without object)
1. to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
–noun
2. the facial expression of a person who smirks.

n. An affected, often offensively self-satisfied smile.

noun
1. a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure

verb
1. smile affectedly or derisively

It is an arrogant, supercilious smile, suggesting that you are superior to the receiver in some way. IT IS NOT NICE.

Okay, there I said it. I hope to see less "kind smirking" ingame from now on.

Feel free to call me pedantic as well, but this is something that REALLY annoys me.

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:19 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:24 pm**

You´re pedantic

No really, I think I misused it one time aswell then I looked it up and never did it again^^ so here for the Germans:

to smirk - grinsen; grienen; zynisch lächeln

smirk - schadenfreudiges Grinsen; spöttisches Lächeln

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:32 pm**

Aaron says: (8:29:46 AM)
*smirks happily*
>>William Elderberry<< says: (8:29:57 AM)
*headshots*
>>William Elderberry<< says: (8:30:02 AM)
NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN OR I'LL BLOCK YOU! O_O

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:35 pm**

#me smirks is a shit #me, same for #me grunts

Boring.

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:42 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:45 pm**

*smirks*

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:48 pm**

Foosinator says:
*smirks unoffensively*
>>William Elderberry<< says:
8th person.
Foosinator says:
I bet none of them re-installed MSN just to say it though

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 5:50 pm**

Nitram (MSN)
17:40: *smirks happily*

>>William Elderberry<< (MSN)
17:41: I would say *headshots* but you'd probably ban me and you know I love you really
17:41:

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 6:21 pm**

Only good rpers use #me's that pass my test!

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 6:31 pm**

Cliu Beothach wrote:Only good rpers use #me's that pass my test!

"#me eats his own head after he has realized, that the world is in fact a large Sibanac leaf, harvested by a cow"?

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 9:25 pm**

MOO.
Say MOO instead.
MOO !

Posted: **Wed May 30, 2007 10:53 pm**

Back in the olde days, only the cool people used #me smirks.

But like all good things, it got copied and overused.