No, she really doesn't, in fact she makes a point of having French-speaking characters speak in an atrocious "French accent" eye-dialect for the sake of her presumed Anglophone audience
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dickydickypand1
Embarrassing. Off the top of my head: Voldemort, Gryffindor, Malfoy, pensieve, Lestrange (family motto: “toujours purs”).
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Replying to @canpacinobox @dickydickypand1
Yeah, so the fuck what That doesn't make using an ACTUAL ENGLISH WORD to mean the OPPOSITE OF WHAT THAT WORD MEANS somehow not a mistake Maybe her knowing the French word is the *explanation* for the mistake, it doesn't make her somehow secretly correct
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Also, "Pensieve" isn't French, it's just a pun in English ("pensive" + "sieve") The French translation of Harry Potter doesn't use it, because the word "sieve" isn't what it's called in French (it's called a "tamis") The translator renders it "Pensine"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dickydickypand1
I thought so too, until the films had Gambon pronounce it the French way.
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Replying to @canpacinobox @dickydickypand1
"Sieve" is not a French word, it is a word of Old English (Germanic) origin (the French word for a "sieve" is "tamis") Whether you say "sieve" with a long or short vowel is just a regional difference, it has nothing to with French
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Most likely they had him pronounce the word "pen-seev" in the film so the audience would, in fact, know he wasn't just saying the word "pensive" You'll notice the films also say "Voldemort" as though it were an English word (pronouncing the T at the end)
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Also Voldemort is a name last I checked?
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Replying to @MalachiteTiger @TheShyWoof and
No, to be fair to her, obviously in reality the name "Lord Voldemort" came first -- with the possible French origin "vol de mort" -- and the name "Tom Marvolo Riddle" was invented afterwards to be the anagram
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It is still... a little weird, like it means that apparently his birth certificate name really is "Tom" and not "Thomas" -- and apparently his dad was Tom Riddle Sr., and his grandpa actually WAS Thomas -- but maybe that's how it works in England, idk
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MalachiteTiger and
It does still feel really forced to me, like it's not actually an anagram of his name, he has to have the "I Am" in there to make it work The actual anagram of his name "Immortal Dove Lord" was right there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MalachiteTiger and
Redwall did the anagram-name thing better IMHO. I AM THAT IS my sword shall wield for me.
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