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Article #608Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more
From: Tim May
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:14
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:14
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In article <slrne38m8b.le9.julian@bongo.tele.com>, Julian Macassey <julian@tele.com> wrote: > On 5 Apr 2006 15:43:49 -0700, Karen <ksoa650@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Joseph Michael Bay wrote: > > > >> Also *technically* the proper use of "trolling" is that you > >> troll a bait, and troll *for* fish. So properly you would > >> say "I'm trolling for n00bs" or "I'm trolling this obvious > >> mispeling to get pedants" but not "you have been trolled", > >> which is a good case for not insisting on proper usage. > > > > How did trawling turn into trolling and how was the troll (as in gnome) > > named after trolling? > > Trolling is seperate from trawling. One uses a net and > one a line. Both are cognate, though, as in dragging, drawing, or even using a tractor beam. (Not coincidentally, tractors and traction have the same root in Dutch and other Germanic languages (tragen), in Latin, and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root "*dhragh- ." (The familiar interchange of "d" and "t") It shows up in Sanskrit as well. --Tim May
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