Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Lars Henrik Mathiesen scripsit:
> >
> > > Snag:
> >
> > Why "snag"?  Is that short for "snaga"?
>
> What's `snaga' mean? And where did this come from? The only thing I know
> `snag' to mean is `sausage', which I'm assuming in't what it was meant to
> mean.
Well, I used the word "troll", which in this context refers to metaphorical
fishing, and Lars replied with the word "snag", which presumably refers to
metaphorical catching (as in "to snag your line").

But I was punning on the (Tolkien) Orkish word "snaga", meaning "slave; inferior
breed of Orc", because of the other referent of "troll".

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