But Sikidy is not a "West African dialect" Sikidy is the name of a form of divination performed by throwing acacia seeds to the ground and seeing the pattern they make, just as the I Ching is based on throwing sticks
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This is what I mean when I say she's not just a bad writer and a bigoted person but profoundly lazy Her worldview is shaped by this amazingly self-confident willingness to just glance at something once or twice and be sure she understands as much of it as she needs to
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Was there ever any need to go back and look up what "Alohomora" meant? Nah Was there ever any worry that someone from the culture she was shamelessly lifting from might be offended or take issue with her? Nah Just plow on ahead, Jo, let your imagination be your compass
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Go ahead and name that girl "Cho Chang" Who the fuck cares It sounds like a name to you and that's all that matters
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Lol I went back to get the full context of the original quote where she scolds Steve Vander Ark for getting the etymology of Alohomora "wrong" (he guessed it came from "aloha") and Jesus Christ the sheer audacitypic.twitter.com/Gmyp2RPtne
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"Maybe he should do some actual research" Jfc listen to yourself woman
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I mean, note the bit where she includes “Cornish Pixies”. That’s … not right ...
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It’s *trivially* easy to check what the Cornish word for what are called pixies in Anglo-Saxon England is. But Rowling isn’t interested in doing even that minimal level of research.
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Brownies are primarily Scottish.
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Her assertion that there is one wizarding school “somewhere in Africa “-whose residents were incapable of inventing a magic wand and had to wait until it was bestowed upon them by white wizards.
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being of English descent, back generations, this always tweaked me about the books: they're shallow, the deepities notwthstanding. And giver her current bent, she doesn't even subscribe to those.
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