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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
So you are aware that she got a degree in Latin languages from University of Exeter right? I’m sure a quick google search will inform you of your mistake here, since you’re fond of the method.
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Sure, and she even wrote an essay in 1998 about how she didn't actually learn anything while she was in college Which obviously was humorous self-deprecation at the time but has just become more and more obnoxious in hindsight over time https://www.rowlingindex.org/work/wnna/
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