[HPforGrownups]: the Stouffer stuff/reserving words

[Monika Zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 13020


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> My  question is: Hasn't anyone noticed that Rowling isn't using "muggles"
> as a trademark? She is using it as a WORD, like turnip or green. I
> have never heard of anyone reserving a word for their exclusive use.

The only example I've heard of is the word "hobbit". If you want to write
about hobbits, you have to use one of the synonims - "Perian", for instance.

But if Mrs. Stouffer seriously thinks that her works are matching the
artistic level of Tolkien's, IMHO lawyers are not the kind of specialists
she needs most.

Monika
(The Snape fasn)