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Jerrine Special user Busking is work. 629 Posts |
So a hep Viper can smoke a muggle but I shouldn't call a person one. Seems reasonable to me.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2006-06-26 00:51, Bill Palmer wrote: "Mudblood" is different from "Muggle." Muggle is someone outside of the magicial community. Mudblood is a witch or wizard from a non-magicial background. "Squib" is a person with a magicial background who has no talent for magic.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Patrick Differ Inner circle 1540 Posts |
Any word can be derogatory depending on when it's used, tone of voice, and facial expression.
Try this. Hey, pal, where are you going? vs. Hey, pal, where do you think you're going?
Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly,
Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I've a many curious things to show when you are there. Oh no, no, said the little Fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair -can ne'er come down again. |
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
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On 2006-06-24 02:17, Josh Riel wrote: Yes, what you wrote is that funny! Keep it up Josh.
Our friends don't have to agree with me about everything and some that I hold very dear don't have to agree about anything, except where we are going to meet them for dinner.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
We have a new term in magic thanks to that petition on Magic Video Depot... "mosquito": a person willing to sell magic secrets, which are not even their property, to muggles for money.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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acmp Elite user Nottinghamshire 466 Posts |
Well said Patrick,
It's not the word that is insulting it's the intention. Words are just a collection of letters that we vocalise (usually) words have different meanings to different people. In the UK a bap can be many things from a bread roll to a woman's breast. It's how we say the words and how we intend them to be taken or used. Muggle, used as an endearing term is fine. As a synonym for a spliff it's fine, as in insult on someone who simply doesn't know something that you do is not fine. On the Internet it is very difficult to use such words and convey your meaning with them. I usually assume it is an endearing term as I feel better that way. I don't really use the word muggle, but then I don't often talk with magicians.
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Tony James Inner circle Cheshire UK 1398 Posts |
Muggles are people who belong (or belonged, I don't know if it still exists, probably not) to a sect called Muggletonians founded around 1650 believing in personal inspiration.
Very much pre-Potter. But then so was Supercalafragalistic - if the author and Disney had know what that word meant they'd have died. Come to think of it, they have. Laughing I shouldn't wonder, when you consider what the word means.
Tony James
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Where could we find definitions of what these words mean?
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Joe McIntyre New user North myrtle beach S.C. 61 Posts |
Muggles:narcoties from early 1900. from american slang dictionary.Joe
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Andy the cardician Inner circle A street named after my dad 3362 Posts |
I would like to recount a personal experience . . . I visited a friend. His children were role-playing Potter. They had a great time, calling all the adults muggles, while running around, frantic wand waving included.
Andy
Cards never lie
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
"You'll put someone's <eye> out with that thing!"
Posted: Dec 16, 2006 11:51pm -------------------------------------------- Quote:
On 2006-12-13 09:31, Joe McIntyre wrote: What about "Supercalifragilistic?"
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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SeaDawg Special user The Lunatic Fringe 718 Posts |
Aye, I think some of us have it easier.
The are those who be part of the "Brethren of the Coast" and the rest are "lolly gaggin, rousa-bout, landlubbin' jack-a-napes". Much simpler... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Posted: Dec 17, 2006 8:31am -------------------------------------------- Also found this on allword.com Definitions supercalifragilisticexpialidocious supercalifragilistic adj 1. Absolutely stunningly fantastic. Etymology: 1964: first coined in a song title in the Walt Disney film Mary Poppins, although a music company and two songwriters instigated a lawsuit, which they lost, claiming to have used the word as early as 1949.
Crazy people take the psycho-path thru the forest...
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
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On 2006-12-10 12:18, mandrake01 wrote: Those are all true. I never said that muggle and mudblood referred to the same group of people.
"The Swatter"
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