GetTheGalleons!? - An aside on Slang

[John Heaton]

No: HPFGUIDX 79925

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:45:29 -0000, Wyld quoted Dan as saying: 

> > Further, JKR says so:
> > "Those goblins are sneaky people. They manage to put the 
> > Muggle money back into circulation. They are like "fences" 
> > --British slang, do you understand it?"

And then him- or herself said:
>    Just an aside, but fences isn't just British slang.  We use 
> it here in the U.S. as well, and I would assume it means the 
> same thing.

In the US, a "fence" is someone who purchases and redistributes
stolen merchandise.  What the Gringotts goblins do seems more
akin to money laundering, though without the illegal overtones
that phrase carries.

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John Heaton
AIM: JohnHeaton
http://bluearmadillo.net

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