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> It is amusing to see "trolling" casually used in the correct, modern sense in a BBC article. The "correct" definition hasn't changed: > carefully and system

> It is amusing to see "trolling" casually used in the correct, modern sense in a BBC article. The "correct" definition hasn't changed: > carefully and systematically search an area for something. Not sure how you came to the idea that internet slang is anything other than internet slang.

selimthegrim 4y ago
Isn’t that ‘trawling’?
- replygirl 4y ago
  trawling is a fishing technique
  - daemoncoder 4y ago
    So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat
  - deleted 4y ago
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- wsinks 4y ago
  "trolling" is another accepted spelling of trawling :)
andrewflnr 4y ago
Even when they're trying to use it as Internet slang, mainstream media tend to use "trolling" as a synonym for just saying mean things.
Symbiote 4y ago
> carefully and systematically search an area for something. That is trawling, not trolling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl#Verb
Satam 4y ago
Language evolves. People have come to understand the difference between windows in a house, and windows in the context of a computer. I'm sure you understand this.
wsinks 4y ago
> "This is a concrete manifestation of the conflict between the FSB [Russia's internal intelligence service] / PMC [private military contractors, like the Wagner Group] on the one hand, and the Ministry of Defence / general staff of the Russian Federation on the other hand," he said. > Did Mr Podolyak know something everyone else didn't? Or was he, perhaps, trolling Moscow, playing on extremely raw nerves exposed by Russia's recent setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine? The use of trolling here isn't to carefully a systematically search for an area of something. The use is much more akin to the internet's version of the word, which has the meaning of 'saying something meant to bring an extreme response from another targeted party'. If there was a mention of investigators trolling the area for evidence of bomb vehicles, I'm with you, even though that feels like an uncommon usage in a BBC article. But this does feel different to me.
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
The internet slang variant is in dictionaries now so the usage is correct! And modern, seeing as it was added post-internet era. The amusement comes purely from seeing it in the BBC, an institution known for their formal English who at one point standardized the accents of their presenters.

selimthegrim 4y ago

Isn’t that ‘trawling’?

replygirl 4y ago
trawling is a fishing technique
- daemoncoder 4y ago
  So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
wsinks 4y ago
"trolling" is another accepted spelling of trawling :)

andrewflnr 4y ago

Even when they're trying to use it as Internet slang, mainstream media tend to use "trolling" as a synonym for just saying mean things.

Symbiote 4y ago

> carefully and systematically search an area for something. That is trawling, not trolling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl#Verb

Satam 4y ago

Language evolves. People have come to understand the difference between windows in a house, and windows in the context of a computer. I'm sure you understand this.

wsinks 4y ago

> "This is a concrete manifestation of the conflict between the FSB [Russia's internal intelligence service] / PMC [private military contractors, like the Wagner Group] on the one hand, and the Ministry of Defence / general staff of the Russian Federation on the other hand," he said. > Did Mr Podolyak know something everyone else didn't? Or was he, perhaps, trolling Moscow, playing on extremely raw nerves exposed by Russia's recent setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine? The use of trolling here isn't to carefully a systematically search for an area of something. The use is much more akin to the internet's version of the word, which has the meaning of 'saying something meant to bring an extreme response from another targeted party'. If there was a mention of investigators trolling the area for evidence of bomb vehicles, I'm with you, even though that feels like an uncommon usage in a BBC article. But this does feel different to me.

MonkeyMalarky 4y ago

The internet slang variant is in dictionaries now so the usage is correct! And modern, seeing as it was added post-internet era. The amusement comes purely from seeing it in the BBC, an institution known for their formal English who at one point standardized the accents of their presenters.