The TR Sound: Movement

What is common to all these forms of trolling, which really helped me get to my definition of emotion, moving, activity, body, speech, and mind, is this TRA and this movement. And in early English, for instance, “trole, trole the bowl to me…” It’s in Shakespeare. And it goes back into very deep into language.

Source: Swifty Decoding Interview

The “TR” element in trolling is about movement — travel, transition, trans, transcend. Trolling comes from fishing discourse (bait wandering through water to ensnare prey), then into police discourse, then into early internet culture. Before Google, there was an internet “troll” search engine.

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