As @jk_rowling knows well, spells need bad Latin. Otherwise general use of Latin would be dangerous.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1310777923981303808 …
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If anything getting the grammar right in Latin would be a great way to *prevent* the whole "accidentally activating Alexa" kind of scenario Precisely because Latin is a highly inflected language
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In Latin you wouldn't accidentally say "impero" in the middle of a sentence like "Wouldn't it be terrible if someone tried to command me to jump out the window" "Impero" specifically means "*I* command" and would only be used in that context
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Arthur, perhaps you could offer JKR Latin lessons, so that her writing could be as good as yours.https://twitter.com/DrPJWilliams/status/1311043972966514688 …
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Did you actually take a whole-ass video just so you could own me for mixing up the dative and ablative? Are we pretending this isn't obviously a mistake, as though almost every other instance of JKR using a Latin word isn't using a first-person verb
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Okay, so "Imperio!" can also mean "to authority!", it's still obviously an error given how all the other Latin spells are a first person verb ("I protect", "I repair", "I torture")
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