Appropriate terminology

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 88915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> The post by punkieshazam (88875) pricked my conscience.

<snip humorous pc replacements for common wizarding terms>

Annemehr:

Yeah, okay, that was funny.

But I'm going to agree with punkie's assertion that we shouldn't
ordinarily call muggle-borns "mudbloods."  It leads to imprecision of
thought.  JKR means for this word to be very rude, and when we read it
in the books, we are meant to be brought up short by it; it's supposed
to make a certain impression.  But if we spend years typing posts that
use "mudblood" as just your everyday synonym for "muggle-born"  I
think some of that impact is bound to be lost.

I may be completely off here; after all, it did seem to be universally
noticed that Snape called Lily a "mudblood."  Still, I'd rather be
using the WW words as JKR's defined them, for accuracy's sake.  Make
sense?

Annemehr
who realises that no actual muggle-borns were harmed by the use of the
term "mudblood"