Appropriate terminology

jdr0918 jdr0918 at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 22 18:55:33 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 89389

<< In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" wrote: But in 
this particular instance I think Muggle is a discriminatory term and 
I have a very good lawyer who says that if I  can prove that I'm 
being victimised I could make a packet out of this. Yippee! Early 
retirement!>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Yippee! indeed! Can we make this an international class action suit? 
I wince whenever I come across the word "Muggle" because it sounds 
too much like that other inflammatory word with a double-g in the 
middle. And now I come to think of it, there's also that pejorative 
term for male homosexual that has a double-g in the middle...

--JDR 





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