[ SECRET POST #3227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3227 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica, Major Crimes]


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03.
[Deadly Premonition]


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04.
[The Walking Dead, Glenn Rhee]


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05.
[Bill Skarsgård]


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08. http://i.imgur.com/LAq54d4.jpg
[link for random penis]









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Comments

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[ketita]

Well, I'm not American XD and I'm not super enthused?
1920s slang included stuff like: Abe's Cabe, big cheese, zozzled, boys being called sheiks, lollygagger, noodle juice, grummy...
I really don't think that "no-maj" fits in with the fun you see in a lot of 20s slang, in part because the etymology is so direct and obvious.

I am also thinking, and don't really have much to back this up atm, but it seems to me that fairly often when in-groups have a name for an out-group, it often constitutes what they *are* rather than what they *are not*. As in, most out-group names I know will not be called "not us", but "them". I would have probably been more okay with a term that didn't mean "not magic" so literally.
(I would give some examples but I doubt I can come up with anything that would not get me laughed at)

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[chardmonster]

It's hard to articulate or prove, really but: as someone who's had to read a lot of 1910s-1920s stuff for my dissertation, "no-maj" rings true. It sounds like a bastardized version of a sensitive term.

"We aren't going to call them Muggles! That's racist. We'll call them NonMagical Persons." And then their kids come up with "no-maj."

Re: Everybody's being morons and ignoring that this is a period movie.

[ketita]

It could be. I'm not saying that it's awful or anything, but it just seems to me that they could have gone a bit more, idk, fun in that department. Thrown in some rhyming or something (like heebie jeebies).

Then again, I haven't read so much from that era lately, so this is just my impression and I'm willing to be corrected.