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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The hilarious thing about you getting super defensive about this is that THIS IS ONE OF THE FUCKUPS JK ROWLING ACTUALLY DID ACKNOWLEDGE Since the definition of the word "enervate" is in fact very widely known among educated English speakers She went back and retconned it
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Enervation is a D&D energy sapping spell for fucksake
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We’ve also established that Rowling is fluent in French. Now you have to prove which meaning she took the spell from. I’ll wait.
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Wait no more. 1. What other spells are in French? 2. Enervate was paired with Stupefy, a rare one in English. 3. Most importantly, she herself acknowledged the error by changing it. If you want to say J.K. Rowling is wrong, I'd like to see some proof!https://www.hp-lexicon.org/edits-changes-text-gf/?ModPagespeed=noscript …
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Watertight research
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Wondered about that myself. The game I'm currently playing has a spell called Enervation: "The target creature temporarily loses 1d4 character levels." The name seemed like the opposite of its meaning, but that makes sense.
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