In #Dutch, the verb "lurken" means "to slurp" (e.g. drinking with a straw or smoking a waterpipe).
I never really realized that the English "to lurk" only has the sinister-ish "lurking in shadows"-type meaning.
This puts the internet slang "lurking" in a different light - I never saw it as something shady, just as people mostly-quietly absorbing the conversation in the background.
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa@raboof huh this might warrant a poll, I never saw 'lurkers' as a particularly negative term either
