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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. 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.

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    2. 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
    3. 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

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    4. 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of Fire or Half-Blood Prince published after 2004, you will find that the word "Enervate" for the Reviving Spell has been replaced by "Rennervate"

      4 replies 3 retweets 44 likes
    5. 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
    6. 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.

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      I do think the "Enervate" error is extremely embarrassing for her and her proofreaders but that's mainly because Goblet of Fire was a fucking record-breaking bestseller that she got paid a seven-figure advance for that had the kids lining up at midnight at bookstores etc etc

      2 replies 2 retweets 33 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      Like I think the worst thing for JK Rowling was buying into her own hype Nobody "fact-checks" her about the folklore and mythology etc, if she gets edited at all anymore it's just for spelling and grammar (and not even that, when she's doing her horrendous eye-dialect)

      2 replies 3 retweets 34 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      She says that she's an extremely erudite and scholarly person with all this knowledge from all these different cultures, and she isn't, but everyone she works with just accepts that she is and lets her do whatever she wants Hence all these preventable blowups happening

      3 replies 3 retweets 36 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      Saying that skinwalkers were just oppressed Animagi or casting an East Asian woman to play a naghini from Hindu mythology Stuff that would have raised an eyebrow at the studio, maybe, if someone other than the Great JK Rowling had said it

      1 reply 2 retweets 28 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

      I feel like the Sorcerer's Stone debacle was a really unfortunate well-poisoning here It established in everyone's minds that JK Rowing was a Very Smart and Educated Person and anyone who disagreed with her about something was an Idiot American Executive in a Suit

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

          Even though, ever since the first book became a bestseller and she became a household name, it's mostly been the opposite, and the people who take her to task for fucking up almost always know more about the subject than she does

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

          It wasn’t her idea, as far as I’m aware.

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @canpacinobox

          It's probably tied to how she used just...a weird hodgepodge of vaguely archaic mystical terms. Like in some respects Rowling's pointedly positioning herself outside genre fantasy made her use of various strange arcane esoterica come off as Fresh and New.

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Sep 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @canpacinobox

          Yeah. It's just that the Philosopher's Stone isn't even really that obscure, so it was a surprising choice all around. It's probably good, on the balance, that the Sorcerer's Stone is a HP-created item, since it no longer needs to reference anything.

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