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of Fire or Half-Blood Prince published after 2004, you will find that the word "Enervate" for the Reviving Spell has been replaced by "Rennervate"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