I don't believe the tent "Voldemort*" to refer to a person existed prior to her, and I think her explanation of using Latin roots to put together "flight from death" is pretty obviously true
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
That explanation has changed a few times, as suits her whims.
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Replying to @Teknogrot
Yeah, but I mean it's obviously true. The "Mort" part at the very least. And I don't believe she ever gave credence to "Arthurian legend"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
See the problem with the Latin explanation is the "volde" part is just not there. The FRENCH explanation rings truer.
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Replying to @Teknogrot
It might have been French when she said it originally. It was a Latinate language. I remember realizing the Voldemortist thing was definitely bullsht from Spanish class
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Teknogrot
Yeah it's French, not Latin, this was why there was the fight over whether the final T in his name is silent
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I would not want to take a bet on how Latin actually pronounced anything when it was a language spoken daily in Rome.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @BootlegGirl
Yeah I'm just saying "vol de mort" is straightforwardly a French phrase, "flight from death" or "theft of death"
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theft of death? like, death eaters?
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I gotta say, I think "Death Eaters" should really have been the moment when we realized the shark was jumped
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"Death Eaters" is relatively fine imo
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's a cool phrase; it's too bad it doesn't seem to describe what they are/do.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Besides Voldemort himself, death/immortality doesn't seem to be that much of a driving motivation for them. And I guess that makes sense, they're mostly fairly young with school-age kids.
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