Derogatory Terms

KMP writes in clarifying what Letter Rogatory means.

It probably means “derogatory” for politicians ;-)

A nice catch.

Anyway dictionary.com says: Etymology: probably partial translation of Medieval Latin littera rogatoria letter of request : a formal written request by a court to a court in a foreign jurisdiction to summon and examine a witness in accordance with that jurisdiction's procedures (as oral interrogatories) —usually used in pl.

My question was only mildly interrogatory. I think I was trying to cast aspersions on the whole thing, equally mildly and, as it turns out, quite ineffectually.