Talk:Little People of America

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[edit] ryan fuire

this link was added to the external links at the bottom. I see no verification that Ryan Fuire holds this position and this web site does not seem to be anyone's home page. Jessamyn 01:27, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When, please?

"LPA got started informally when Billy Barty hosted a weeklong get-together in Reno, Nevada for people of short stature. That original meeting of 21 people grew,..."

There should be a terminology segment.

Is the plural of dwarf both dwarves & dwarfs?

And, then:

dwarf;

midget;

little person;

little persons;

little people;...

Each of these are frequently, also, applied to child | children, & "little person" is frequently difficult to work into a sentence, as are many nouns {noun_phrases} that require more than one word.

Most, or all, of this is also true of various other words, such as pygmy, pygmy_(mythology), which is problematic in various additional ways.

Then there would be elf | elves, fairy | fairies, gnome, nome king {not Nome}, goblin, leprechaun | leipreachán, troll [which is also a very nasty & rude accusation regarding computers & internet], et al.

There is much linguistic work to be considered.

Thank You.

[[ hopiakuta | [[ [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] -]] 07:12, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

—— Dwarf is the correct grammatical term. Dwarves is a name of a fairy tale creature (Snow White, Tolkein, etc.). Midget is considered offensive. Little Persons is the preferred term of the LPA organization. Deal with it. —— 209.216.190.59 (talk) 06:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC) Bill Bradford, LPA VP of Programs