Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more

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From: Steve Pope
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:51

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Geoff Miller <geoffm@netgate.net> wrote:

>Steve Pope <spope33@speedymail.org> writes:

>: Here's an analogy: someone who hacks is a hacker.  Any given example
>: of that thing that he does is a hack.  Similarly, someone who trolls
>: is a troller.  

>> Surely trolls lived under bridges for decades if not centuries before
>> modern usages of troll, troller, etc.

>Er, what's that got to do with what I said?

In my view the common usage of troll as a noun derived from
the older noun usage of trolls under bridges.

Steve

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Subject: Re: Uzbekistan:  not just a country any more
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