dwarf vs. midget

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JT2010  #437450  Thu, 01 Nov 07 03:07 AM
Dwarves are not the same as midgets. Dwarves are actually fictional people from norse and germanic mythology and modern fantasy works, so I think application to people that are refered to as midgets (little people) would probably be offensive. The politicaly correct term has changed over time.
  
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Anonymous  #451270  Sun, 09 Dec 07 10:41 AM
you are crazy there is a difference. A midget is a short person or little people every thing is propotional and the same as a normal adult. A dwarf  extremities are shorter and unpropitional to the rest of there bodies. The fictional characters as gnomes and hobbits .
  
Tartan  #451444  Sun, 09 Dec 07 11:09 PM
This dead horse has been beaten enough already, and the last answer is almost perfect. Just add that dwarves are also fictional characters as well as little people. For example, Snow White and the Seven ....
  
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Anonymous  #464354  Tue, 15 Jan 08 03:04 AM
Well  I am having this debate at work. I don't feel like the question was answered. Which one is taller a midget or a dwarf?
  
Anonymous  #469687  Mon, 28 Jan 08 09:51 AM

A Dwarf is a small person with a long body, short legs, and a swollen head, whereas a midget measures roughly the same height as a dwarf but with all its features in proportion. I have carried out some research on the subject of ''Social popularity amongst dwarfs and midgets with attractive faces'', my findings were quite suprising. It turns out that esp. in the media, dwarfs are favored, I approached several main TV/Film casting companies posing as a Agent To The Stars specialising in Dwarfs & Attractive Midgets, i was over whelmed with requests for dwarfs by the dozen, but not once for the handsome midgets I even pro-activily lobbied for them but could not raise any interest! Therefore my conclusion was, Dwarfs are more socially popular. Since carring out my research I have since learnt that dwarfs can be hired for stag parties, as escorts etc, so it seems they are cashing in on there demand!

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Kenny Diamond

  
Anonymous  #508225  Thu, 01 May 08 07:26 PM
What doesn't help is that most of the people who answer are almost making up their own answer.  The only way to be somewhat sure of finding your answer is to do the work and check multiple references, and only pay attention to answers from others who give information that isn't filtered by their own version of sensibility.  Peoples' answers make sense to themselves, but they cloud the issue unless they look seriously for the answer rather than coming up with what sounds good or giving nothing more than an opinion.

The lady whose son has dwarfism but is normally proportioned has one of the few good answers, and the majority should be ignored.

By her answer you can assume that the terms dwarf and midget are not exact, and to debate that each refers only to one sort of body type is not 100% accurate

Therefore, any debate about these terms cannot have a true, clear outcome, other than one side insisting their opinion is correct, which is not debate and serves nothing since debate needs clear subject matter.  Without that, a debate can't actually be "won".  In the context of this thread, the only broadly accurate thing I see that could be said about the two terms is that there is a generalized usage of the two terms, but that they are not specific terms with an absolutely clear usage.

Finally, to throw in with the off-topic debate:  It is never true that there is no gravity in space.  The condition of an astronaut in space is called free-fall, or weightlessness.  The most accurate term is microgravity, to my understanding and that of another poster.  If there were no gravity in space, it is likely all the other classical forces of nature could not exist, either, and matter itself would not exist as we know it.  Gravity affects all matter.

 - Staked Plains Texan

  
Anonymous  #509214  Sun, 04 May 08 08:10 AM

<An insult is deleted by mod. Please don't be harsh next time> 

You mixed up a dwarf and a midget.  A midget is the one  which is abnormally proportioned, a dwarf is just a small person normally proportioned.

  
Anonymous  #509472  Sun, 04 May 08 06:05 PM
 That would be "levity," right?  The opposite of gravity.  <G>
  
Anonymous  #512208  Sat, 10 May 08 11:40 PM

Gravity is warped space.

  
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