Parricide and other terms

bluesqueak pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk
Sat Oct 5 23:01:03 UTC 2002


> Eloise:
> 
> I would think "Murder" with additional key words to identify victim 
> and assailant and comments would work?
> 
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Hmmm... my trouble is that murder within families does seem to be a 
theme in the books, and might later require an FAQ. 

If we stick with just 'Murder' as the keyword, whoever is editing is 
going to have to sort through all the non-family murders. Of which 
there are a lot.

I think that yes, we *are* going to have to assume that someone is 
going to have to read through the key word definitions first. If 
so, 'kin-slaying' is more immediately obvious than 'parricide' and 
more specific than 'murder'.

The alternative seems to be to use TWO keywords - murder, and kin. 
Which is not good.

Pip





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