adopting potterspeak

davewitley dfrankiswork at netscape.net
Wed Jan 11 10:43:54 UTC 2006


Shaun wrote:

> Among the gifted community - that is, those people involved with the 
> support of gifted children - it's become reasonably common to refer 
> to those who don't seem to understand giftedness and who wind up 
> opposing the needs of gifted children as 'Muggles'. Other people 
> object to this.

Heh.  So far, I have managed to resist the temptation to call our 
esteemed and valued customers 'Muggles', but I experience it, for much 
the same reasons.

I think the use of the word 'Muggle' for someone who just doesn't get 
it, or who is outside some privileged circle, has some chance of 
sticking.

David







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