TBAY and diversity, continued and long

[Dicentra spectabilis]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...>
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
> wrote:

> > So what I was trying to exlain is that we on this list can assume 
> > that JKR wrote from that WCAS background, BUT we can *not* assume 
> > that everyone *is from* that background or even *knows* it. There 
> > is a very fine line here, I'm not sure I'm being clear, but this is 
> > important. 
 
> Corect me if I misunderstand you, but I infer from what you have 
> written that, in the interests of some vague goal of inclusivity, 
> you would destroy all that diversity which you previously celebrated.
> Why must there be one set of symbols, metaphors what have you on 
> this list?   

I think that you might have misunderstood Del.  Although her earlier
posts tended to advocate a normalization of communication styles, her
position has shifted since Eileen pointed out that the problem seems
to be with ways of thinking and communication styles rather than with
TBAY itself.

> You are advocating a 
> course of action similar to those idiot editors at Scholastic who 
> eliminated the original British idioms-- yea, even the title-- in PS 
> because the poor, befuddled Americans couldn't cope with jumpers and 
> trainers and the like. 

I think that Del has backed off from that stance.  Instead, we seem to
be coming to the idea of putting a Brit-American glossary in the
appendix of the HP books (which metaphorically refers to
HypotheticAlley and InishAlley as glossary resources).

Which, incidentally, leads us back to the ADMIN question that started
it all: what do people need to know to better understand TBAY?

--Dicentra