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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid

      Like, if she'd just put the word in her book because it sounded cool, and then in interviews owned up to it and said "I didn't know what it meant, I put it in my book because it sounded cool", that'd be one thing But she LIED Not in the book, in real life, she lied to people

      1 reply 3 retweets 51 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid

      She said that bullshit about borrowing from "the West African dialect of Sidiki a word that means 'friendly to thieves'" in a court case, in the specific context of proving how much research she'd done in order to shore up her IP rights to the Harry Potter universe

      2 replies 4 retweets 52 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid

      It was a shitty thing to do It was a *minor* shitty thing to do, but it makes her look bad, and it very much ties in to her cavalier treatment of facts throughout the history of the Harry Potter franchise and in her attempts at being a Twitter public intellectual

      1 reply 3 retweets 51 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BofingerDavid

      Again, I have to point out how much of a slap in the face it is when something like Harry Potter takes over the Google search results for a real thing from your own culture

      5 replies 3 retweets 57 likes
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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @erinbiba @BofingerDavid

      Yes For instance, I know nothing really of Aramaic, and *all* the sources I can easily find online for what "Avada Kedavra" means are JK Rowling saying it means "Let the thing be destroyed" And after my deep dive into Alohomora I don't trust her research AT ALL

      4 replies 4 retweets 43 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @erinbiba @BofingerDavid

      But there's no easy, casual way to find out what "Avada Kedavra" actually means, if anything, with the tools at hand The simple fact that JKR is famous and the Harry Potter books are famous means that her explanation of the meaning of "Avada Kedavra" dominates the whole Internet

      2 replies 4 retweets 33 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @erinbiba @BofingerDavid

      When I find some source that seems to affirm that she's right about it I have no indication of whether they actually confirmed that from an independent source or, like everyone else, they trusted her about it the way they trusted her about the "West African Sidiki dialect"

      2 replies 2 retweets 28 likes
    10. Joseph 'Gerkuman' Adams B.Sc.(Hons)‏ @Gerkuman 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @erinbiba @BofingerDavid

      Which is weird because... It's abracadabra. A word with disputed origins that almost seemed to come out of nowhere. So JK is very sus and if she was playing Among Us I would space her.

      2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @Gerkuman @erinbiba @BofingerDavid

      Yes, all the pre-Harry Potter sources I can find online say that any proposed etymologies for the word "abracadabra" are highly dubious and there's a very high chance it was simply invented as a "magic word" with no prior meaning

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        2. OwenAdamsYT‏ @OwenAdamsYT 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and

          I think there's something sort of sad in "I took abracadabra and made a little wordplay with cadaver" not being a clever enough explanation for her too. It's a completely fine little pun in the context of the story, why the need to try and intellectualise it?

          2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
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        1. Dominic‏ @Dominic11B4 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and

          Honestly, one of the things that makes this example easy for her to impose her BS is the lack of narratively satisfying origins.

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and

          losing my mind at the possibility that one day time will be measured as BHP and AHP and the months renamed according to the Rowlingian Calendar

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. David Bofinger‏ @BofingerDavid 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

          I think 2020 has been bad enough, and it would be better if we didn't give the universe any ideas.

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        2. Jeff Fecke‏ @jkfecke 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and

          Honestly, if she'd just admit it's a pun on abracadabra and cadaver it would be better.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Joseph 'Gerkuman' Adams B.Sc.(Hons)‏ @Gerkuman 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @jkfecke @arthur_affect and

          But she won't. Because of this guypic.twitter.com/l5xVbqP9Oj

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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