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01-29-2003, 12:58 PM
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little people or midgets.....
What is the correct term for a "midget"? Someone told me it was "little people", is this true? Any help would be appreciated.
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01-29-2003, 01:16 PM
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I think it's "person".
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01-29-2003, 01:20 PM
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little people
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01-29-2003, 01:41 PM
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ahh I hate PC!
vertically challenged?
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01-29-2003, 01:43 PM
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i think vertically challenged is for short people, but not "little persons". i think.....
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01-29-2003, 01:46 PM
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Geez, you guys are pathetic, and embarasing. from here:
"Dwarfism is an accepted medical term, but it should not be used as general terminology. Terms such as "little people" or "midget" imply less than full adult status in society. The preferred generic term is person of small stature."
Another pov: http://www.eonline.com/Celebs/Star/Hank/ask2.html
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btw, what's the correct term for a person of no class? So far I have a couple guesses.
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01-29-2003, 01:57 PM
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i vote for dwarfs or if you want to piss them off call them "Pecks" (from the motion picture "Willow")
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01-29-2003, 02:15 PM
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I miss Hank :-(
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01-29-2003, 04:45 PM
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sorry, this is semi-off topic, but this thread reminded me of something. a couple of my friends went to the mall in concord, NC a week or so ago, and guess who was there!! one of the "lolly pop kids" actor from the original wizard of oz movie!! he is now 80 something years old and he was 18 in the movie. the reason i was reminded is obviously b/c he is a "person of small stature". he was there signing autographs. very cool 
drew
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01-29-2003, 04:46 PM
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In Ancestral Vices, one of Tom Sharpe's wickedly funny social satires, the hero is a very politically-correct idealist who rents a room in a house owned by a voluptuous young woman and her husband, a vicious, alcoholic dwarf. "Person of restricted growth" is the term our man uses at first, but as the novel progresses, it becomes an abbreviation, "p.o.r.g.", and finally a noun, "porg", that is far uglier than the word "dwarf".
The reason that euphemisms ultimately fail and have to be replaced by other euphemisms is that they're referring to things that people find hard to contemplate. Changing the word is only a temporary palliative.
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