[Ads-l] New to me: _griefing_

[Ben Zimmer]

Hi Wilson! We talked about "griefing" five years ago, when it was also new
to you. :->

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-June/110293.html

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The mean-spirited practice of ... marring other people's on-line
> experience"
>
> http://goo.gl/OiemvU
>
> The definition above isn't in the article, but it is in the e-mail notify
> about the article.
>
> The UD has it from '04, in its original, on-line-gaming use in the sense of
> lousing up a game for other players.
>
>

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