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== Webcomics ==

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the Troll language word for 'friend' is the same as the word for 'enemy.' [[With Friends Like These...|Considering the general nature of Troll relationships]], this is quite fitting.

** The Troll language is also [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004292 much more complex] than the human language when it comes to the subject of romance. Human culture would, for example, have difficulty diagnosing kismesis - but would also have trouble with moirallegiance (and would be likely to consider it extremely unhealthy). Troll culture, on the other hand, has no term for homosexuality, since troll reproduction works so that any pairing can produce progeny (it's complex, and it involves birth by proxy). This disconnect was only [~~http~~://~~www~~.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004528 recently learned]:

** The Troll language is also [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004292 much more complex] than the human language when it comes to the subject of romance. Human culture would, for example, have difficulty diagnosing kismesis - but would also have trouble with moirallegiance (and would be likely to consider it extremely unhealthy). Troll culture, on the other hand, has no term for homosexuality, since troll reproduction works so that any pairing can produce progeny (it's complex, and it involves birth by proxy). This disconnect was only [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815093243/http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004528 recently learned]:

{{quote|'''CG''': HUMANS HAVE A WORD FOR THAT?

'''EB''': yes.