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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