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descriptive naming of your opponent

descriptive naming of your opponent

Posted Oct 16, 2007 0:27 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: descriptive naming of your opponent by drag
Parent article: A visit from the trolls

One minor point: the trawl-versus-troll discussion was in reference to the
UK, where those words would invariably be pronounced quite differently, to
the degree that it's hard to imagine confusing them.


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descriptive naming of your opponent

Posted Oct 16, 2007 0:58 UTC (Tue) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

The words are pronounced very differently in the US, too.

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