Teja listens to them, eyes sliding from one to the other. They seem to nicely illustrate the point on one another.

"I know not much about Romani and Gypsies," he says, "as they migrated into Europe only long after our Migration Age; but Gene, I am sure that is not a good word to use. Call a Goth 'barbarian', call Fry 'defective', call a woman a 'bird', call a Romani 'gyppo' -- all words that mean 'those people there who aren't worth much', and that's the point, as far as I can tell?"

He looks at Shufti.