Appropriate terminology
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at aol.com
Sat Jan 24 07:42:26 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 89526
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizvega2" <lizvega2 at y...>
wrote:
Lizvega:
> I don't see any problem with the word 'muggle'. There had to be a
> way for JKR to distinguish between 'wizards' and 'non magic folk'.
> And, not to be argumentative, but isn't it a stretch trying to
> correlate "that other inflammatory word with a double-g in the
> > middle. And that pejorative term for male homosexual that has a
> double-g in the middle..." to a word that means,
> essentially, 'unable to do magic?
>
> Are all words with double 'g's derrogatory? How about hugger? Is
> that bad? Or jogger?
Geoff:
I'm not sure I would like to be called a boggart....
:-)
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