reading for moss trolls

rambling off of sartorias 's post on language. . .

The original post was mrissa's observation that

The advantage of writing urban fantasy or world-crossing fantasy is that when the sea serpent has eyes the color of NyQuil, you can say so rather than spending time trying to come up with settlement-era Icelandic-ish equivalent having something to do with moss-troll ichor.

which lead to truepenny 's discussion on the use of language in secondary worlds, which leads to discussion on avoiding the use.

Which is where it gets interesting.

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