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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 28 Sep 2020

      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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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Sep 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Sep 2020

      But I'm not talking about that, or about how JKR thinks "Enervate" means the opposite of "Stupefy" when in fact it means the same thing No, I'm talking about one of the most obnoxious acts of appropriation in the series since the very beginning The Unlocking Charm, "Alohomora"

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    4. Kim Bigot-Smith  🟧 ⬛️‏ @canpacinobox 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Embarrassed for you. Rowling speaks French. In French, énerver can mean to excite or to agitate.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @canpacinobox

      Okay, and "enervate" isn't a French word, it's an English word I know she didn't major in English at university, but does she speak it

      4 replies 2 retweets 88 likes
    6. Kim Bigot-Smith  🟧 ⬛️‏ @canpacinobox 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Where do you think it came from?

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @canpacinobox

      It came from Latin, where it always had the meaning "to weaken", literally "to cut the sinews/nerves" https://www.etymonline.com/word/enervate 

      3 replies 3 retweets 75 likes
    8. Kim Bigot-Smith  🟧 ⬛️‏ @canpacinobox 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Another etymological tip for you: French arose as a regional dialect of Latin and has obviously developed since. English absorbed many (Norman) French words after the conquest of 1066. English did not spring from Latin.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @canpacinobox

      Okay, and I just literally showed you an etymological dictionary saying the source was a direct borrowing from Latin in Middle English And that in all three of these languages the original meaning was "cut the sinews", i.e. "to weaken or to make collapse"

      3 replies 5 retweets 90 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      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

      3 replies 4 retweets 67 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

      If you buy an edition of Goblet of Fire or Half-Blood Prince published after 2004, you will find that the word "Enervate" for the Reviving Spell has been replaced by "Rennervate"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

          Which, of course, isn't a word at all, but that's obviously better than just using a regular-ass English word to mean the opposite of what it actually means in the dictionary

          1 reply 3 retweets 28 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

          Yeah, I mean - it's actually not even a particularly unique error. "Enervate" is one of those words that English speakers regularly misuse, for whatever set of reasons. People make mistakes, and she actually fixed this one. It doesn't mean that she's secretly right.

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        1. direct antistate stimulation‏ @the_damn_muteKi 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

          Rennervate sounds like the name of a house flipping show starring Larry the cable guy

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        2. Kim Bigot-Smith  🟧 ⬛️‏ @canpacinobox 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          A lot of things were changed to make the books more palatable to readers who may have trouble understanding. The title of the first novel was changed in the US because publishers feared it would be confusing for US readers.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @canpacinobox

          Lol yes it is all the English-speaking readers who know what the word "enervate" actually means who are, in fact, the ignorant ones We are not worthy of her genius

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