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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Replying to @arthur_affect
The spell "alohamora" appeared in the first book meaning Jo came up with it in the 90s before Google was invented and before she even had internet access (being the internet was new and she was on welfare). Any info she got wouldve been from books in a library. Logic. Damn.
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You do not have to have a PhD in anthropology not to fuck this one up You just have to be able to understand what you're reading when you read a table of signs and it says one of the signs is "favorable to thieves"
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Like, "It's a description, it means the sign IS favorable to thieves, it doesn't mean the definition of the word is 'favorable to thieves'" isn't an education thing, it's a reading comprehension thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Izze1122
It's not me complaining about her lack of access to sources - it's complaining that whatever source she looked at (probably just some big book of New Age "signs and symbols used in witchcraft", since I doubt she was researching Madagascar specifically) she didn't understand
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yeah as somobe who grew up with a neopagan parent, tje vast majority of new age books are absolutely terrible about stuff like this.
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Yeah whatever book or website she looked at probably didn't give much if any context but still The way she interpreted what she did see was UNBELIEVABLY lazy
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It's like if my education on the Chinese zodiac was something like this restaurant placemat And I noticed that the Pig sign is "prone to marital strife" So I started saying that the Chinese word 猪, which means "pig", actually MEANS "prone to marital strife"pic.twitter.com/aVt2DdCnEj
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And then in my book about kid wizards I had them use the "猪 rune" as the "Symbol of Heartbreak" and when you write it on someone's house it curses the couple who lives there to get divorced
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