Re-reading Making Money today.
Feb. 7th, 2010 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Trolls don't have a word for machismo in much the same way that puddles don't have a word for water."
Do you think that's a variant of the "Eskimos have 20 zillion words for snow" line? (BTW - they don't by any sensible view of the word (no more than we do, certainly), and it wouldn't matter if they did.)
Do you think that's a variant of the "Eskimos have 20 zillion words for snow" line? (BTW - they don't by any sensible view of the word (no more than we do, certainly), and it wouldn't matter if they did.)
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