[Ads-l] new to me: "goblin mode"

[Wilson Gray]

> Many of the younger generation know about goblins via the Japanese
> light novel, manga, audio drama, and anime television series “Goblin
> Slayer.”

That's also true of some few of the elder generation. But I figure, to
paraphrase Richard Pryor, "they got they goblins and we got ours."

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:00 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > I must object, however, that in my understanding goblins are
> > primarily disconcerting and dangerous (as in Rossetti's "Goblin
> > Market" and Riley's "Little Orphant Annie").
>
> > Even OED calls them "mischievous" and "ugly," not "self-indulgent, lazy,
> > slovenly, or geedy."  MW adds "sometimes evil and malicious."
>
> Many of the younger generation know about goblins via the Japanese
> light novel, manga, audio drama, and anime television series “Goblin
> Slayer”.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Slayer
>
> The goblins are depicted extremely negatively. The primary goal of the
> main character, Goblin Slayer, is to exterminate all goblins.
>
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