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muggle
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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A non- wizard. Not as disparaging as luser ; implies vague pity rather than
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contempt. In the universe of Rowling's enormously (and deservedly) popular
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children's series, muggles and wizards inhabit the same modern world, but
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each group is ignorant of the commonplaces of the others' existence most
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muggles are unaware that wizards exist, and wizards (used to magical ways of
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doing everything) are perplexed and fascinated by muggle artifacts. In
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retrospect it seems completely inevitable that hackers would adopt this
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metaphor, and in hacker usage it readily forms compounds such as
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muggle-friendly. Compare luser , mundane , chainik , newbie.
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