Definition of Chinese, according to Cambridge dictipnary is “belonging to or relating to China, its people, or its language”. There’s no defition where troll is strictly nationality where as asset is not. Unless you choose to define it as such.
One is referred to as part of a whole ‘Russian spys’.
Where a troll is an individual.
This is how I, and clearly many others, read your sentence. There is no one ‘correct’ way, but thats how I read it. It all depends on how you read that adjective
I mean you prove my point. Just like Russian spy (an individual) can be any nationality who spies for Russia, so can Chinese troll be any nationality who trolls for China.
Or does the definition also somehow change between troll and spy and chinese and russian??
Which definition of troll implies a nationality?
The ‘Chinese troll’.
In the same way ‘Chinese woman’ is a woman with Chinese heritage/nationality.
Now provide the definition instead of just repeating yourself or I assume I’m right.
Yes you are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective
I invite you to learn about adjitives.
Also way to edit the comment from ‘your wrong’ to a completely different comment so it looks like I’m ignoring you.
Seriously, its the adjective of ‘chineese person’ that changes the sentence. No single word definition changes there. But the meaning of the sentence.
Now explain why asset is different to troll?
Definition of Chinese, according to Cambridge dictipnary is “belonging to or relating to China, its people, or its language”. There’s no defition where troll is strictly nationality where as asset is not. Unless you choose to define it as such.
One is referred to as part of a whole ‘Russian spys’.
Where a troll is an individual.
This is how I, and clearly many others, read your sentence. There is no one ‘correct’ way, but thats how I read it. It all depends on how you read that adjective
Russian spy can also be any nationality who spies for Russia. Spy is also an individual.
can
When does troll mean a group?
I mean you prove my point. Just like Russian spy (an individual) can be any nationality who spies for Russia, so can Chinese troll be any nationality who trolls for China.
Or does the definition also somehow change between troll and spy and chinese and russian??
To put it better ‘Russian asset’ means the asset belongs to Russia, not just the person. Wherr troll is just a person.