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Does term "Troll" come from "trolling for ..." ?
Mr. Analogy
Yup.
Trying to be a nice guy.
yeah, except that the origins of that word in English are the word trawl, as in a trawler, which is a large fishing vessel that drags a net behind it as it sails along.
John Q Tester
Yeah, I agree with John, the word in English is "trawl", when you're talking about fishing.
Steve Jones (UK)
Trolling and trawling ar two different methods
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Stephen Jones
That's "'are' two different fishing methods".
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"Err, so what do the Americans speak then?".
Steve Jones (UK)
It is really quite an important difference. I'm going to try to avoid confusion by saying that the following statement is in English, of the type they speak in Great Britain.
John Q Tester
Fairly appropriate comments for a thread on trolls.
Stephen Jones
""American English is to English what American football is to football, less skillful, more violent, and they need a non-American to get the difficult bits right.""
Mr. Analogy
How do you figure?
Matthew Lock
What do the Native Americans have to do with Germany ?
Steve Jones (UK)
Man, you kids don't know your history.
old_timer
Mr Analogy - It would be more accurate to say that if it hadn't been for the Poles & the Czechs Britain would be speaking German. They formed a large proportion of the RAF fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain (July-Sept 1940) and the Blitz (Sept 1940-May 1941).
a cynic writes...
Again, you kids don't study history. It was primarily the USSR that defeated Nazi Germany. The rest of us were more or less along for the ride.While that was going on, the actions on the eastern front were orders of magnitude greater in terms of men and material. The battle of Brittain was a sideshow compared to the Russian and Ukrainian campaigns. Polish and Czeck pilots became available to the RAF only because their armies had already been obliterated.
old_timer
Sideshow agreed - but just a tad important from the perspective of someone from the East End ;-) and since Operation Sealion was abandoned in Oct 1940 I think the point still stands.
a cynic writes...
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