[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: adopting potterspeak

[Shaun Hately]

On 11 Jan 2006 at 10:43, davewitley wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it seems somehow appropriate to me for any group that doesn't 
seem to know what is going on in a particular field.

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/pg_cult.htm might amuse some people.

PG - in the sense of that page - refers to 'profoundly gifted' - this 
is not just the ordinary areas of the gifted community but the much 
more out there areas. This page is just a bit of fun - and a lot of 
what is on there, is just general 'nerd-type' questions.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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