[Ads-l] New to me: _griefing_

[Neal Whitman]

I first encountered it in the form "griefer", probably around '04 too.

Neal


On 6/9/2016 11:17 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> 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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