SC - Down with "mundane", up with "muggle"
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Thu Aug 17 09:42:58 PDT 2000
Ibn Battuta discusses an equivalent problem and its solution.
Mohammed ibn Tugluq, the fabulously wealthy Muslim ruler of northern
India, seems to have had a policy of encouraging educated Muslims
from abroad to come to his court--my suspicion is that he wanted
civil servants without local ties. One problem was that the terms for
"foreigners" were all at least somewhat derogatory. So he announced
that all foreigners at his court were to be referred to as
"honorables."
David/Cariadoc
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