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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iamntbatman" data-source="post: 7357540" data-attributes="member: 6907623">Meh, that sounds really contrived to me. I mean, what are the odds? I can think of examples of real world derogatory terms for peoples that resulted from corruptions of words from their languages that other groups heard, but not in a way that results in words that could describe some defining physical characteristic of the people. The real word has racist terms, so I'm okay with having them in my fantasy setting, too.My hin bard would never get in a bar fight like that over being called a nasty name. He's just not the physical sort. Early in his career, he'd have just tried to laugh it off and deflect with self-deprecating humor, but more recently as his magical abilities have grown in power, well...let's just say that some knucklehead calling him a halfling in a pub would probably a good catalyst for violence.</blockquote>