<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257737.msg12894929#msg12894929">Quote from: AidenWhite on 09-01-2017, 23:59:26</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It's a fancy off-term that some people can use based on the theorized origin of Abnormals. A polite term would to just not call them one at all and refer to them as just human beings. People who aren't afraid will still call them Abnormals just like there are still some people who use the "n word" to call black people, though the severity of the usage of the word Abnormals isn't as drastic I would say (or perhaps it would if I gave it a more societal context but that would take writing paragraphs upon paragraphs of essentially fake history to build that background and I'm not into doing that ^^)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Would it be fair to say that "Abnormal" is like "gaijin," in that the term is somewhat negative (at least by etymology) but a lot of people using it don't mean anything by it?  I mean, supposedly the school doesn't allow the word (or the original OP said so I think?), but it's in the name of the club everyone is joining.<br/><br/>It's fine to just call them human beings but at some point you do need a word for "hey, does this person have superpowers?"