Parricide and other terms
eloiseherisson at aol.com
eloiseherisson at aol.com
Sat Oct 5 12:02:20 UTC 2002
The trouble with any of these terms (and I have to agree with Porphyria, that
parricide *is* technically the correct term for any of these killings,
although particularly of parents) that they require someone coming along
later to look throught the list of terms first, before deciding what to
search for. I think I would more instinctively look for parricide than I
would for something beginning with 'kin' and that we just have to explain any
terms that might be open to misinterpretation, or have a wider application
than at first appears.
(I'd just written a paragraph explaining why 'revenge' didn't seem right,
which was leading into a nice theory about Sirius being Snape's father via
use of a Time Turner, hence wanting to feed him to the Dementors out of
revenge would be attempted parricide, but I seem to have got the wrong end of
the stick along with Eileen! :-) ! )
Perhaps we should eventually organise the list of terms thematically, as well
as alphabetically, if it gets as large as it threatens to?
Someone mentioned they were keying JKR as Rowling (though it's not on the
list yet). Which should we use? I vote for JKR.
Shipping (yet again). I see 'SHIP: Harry'; 'SHIP: Cho' on the list.
I'm still confused about how I should be doing this.
(LOONily)...Doesn't 'plagiarism' have an 'i' in it?
Eloise
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