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Have you ever considered that classifying people who disagree with you as a race of subhuman monsters is "amplifying the negativity you find in this world"? If
by fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
Have you ever considered that classifying people who disagree with you as a race of subhuman monsters is "amplifying the negativity you find in this world"?
If a bored fourteen year old really offers a rhetorical threat to your argument, get new arguments.
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- mrob 7y agoThe word "troll" in this context originates from the fishing technique, not the monster.
- A_I 7y agoProof?
- mrob 7y agoWikipedia has citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Origin_and_etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Origin_and_etym...
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoHow can someone be a verb? I'm a eating. Doesn't make sense.
- mrob 7y ago"Troll" is both a verb and a noun. Originally it was just a verb: "to provoke responses by metaphorically dragging bait", but it soon broadened to mean "somebody who provokes responses by metaphorically dragging bait". And in modern times the meaning has broadened still further to include direct insults, which is a needless loss of precision in language because there was already the perfectly good verb "flame" for that meaning . But even after all the extension of meaning, the origin of the word is still the dragging of fishing bait.