Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it
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We all know that the spell names in Harry Potter are bad Because JK Rowling doesn't actually know any Latin and doesn't look it up, even when she was getting million-dollar advances to look it up So you get stuff like "Imperio!" ("To the empire!")
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I seem to recall reading that she "developed" the spells by basically mangling words she found in a Portuguese dictionary, but I can't find any reference to that anymore online, so she might have just mangled Latin
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect
Regardless, I love to think that all the South American wizard students in their one (1) single wizarding school in Brazil are constantly doing the wizarding equivalent of butt-dialing, or "Hey, Siri"ing their wands in the course of normal conversations
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah the dog-Latin spells are the kind of thing that's not that big a deal until you're pretending these silly books are a whole actual fantasy universe and you try expanding the franchise internationally etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
Tbh I don't even care about dog-Latin that much - if anything, I think the idea that Latin was a particularly mystical or magical language is itself obnoxious (the more you learn about the ancient Romans the less magical they seem)
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However, stealing something from Africa and then obviously not caring about even remembering what part of Africa you stole it from isn't a great look
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
come again? Africa? What was stolen? I feel like I'm missing something here. It's related to bad latin spellphrases?
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