Comment on Is the m-word a slur for people with dwarfism? If so, what are more appropriate terms to use other than dwarf?

• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lilliputian

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  • alternategait@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always feel weird when fantasy settings have references to things that are very specifically real world. How can you have champagne in a world without France. Lilliputian requires either the island of Lilliput to exist, or Johnathan Swift to have lived and written Gulliver’s Travels. And that would have been very very different because it was satirical commentary on the politics of Britain at the time of writing.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I meant to try cooking up something tied to their home. Are they from Poytlevania?

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  • SourDragon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a condition, not a race. I just wanted a word or phrase to use that didn’t have a negative connotation to it.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      From birth or do they “catch” it?

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