Oh well sometimes it's entertainingLook at this old definition for the verb 'to troll', for instance:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/troll_4
Falling out of use, that definition, for some reason.
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Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:08,
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dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/troll_4
Falling out of use, that definition, for some reason.
Yeah, it's an american fishing term - a corruption of "trawl".Internet trolling also originally came from that meaning as well - to "troll for newbs" on usenet by posting something that an experienced user would quickly disregard but new people would instantly react to.
People talk these days as though it's the ogre type troll rather than the american fishing type troll so I guess etymology is a bitch.
(People talk these days as though it's the ogre type troll rather than the american fishing type troll so I guess etymology is a bitch.
gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:13,
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