When someone is writing a book in English, for an English-speaking audience, and uses an *English word* (which is what "enervate" is), it actually doesn't matter if the word looks similar to a French word with a different meaning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dickydickypand1
Rowling actually uses a lot of French in her books.
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Replying to @canpacinobox @dickydickypand1
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 @MalachiteTiger @canpacinobox and
this account literally has no identity beyond being wantonly hateful towards trans women
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @MalachiteTiger and
Except that for the moment it's been replaced with mindless advocacy for the inerrancy of JK Rowling, which is absolutely an improvement
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This lady has been coming at me for HOURS for being an ignorant stupid American because I'm not bilingual in French and if I were I'd appreciate the genius of Rowling's writing etc And just now accidentally revealed she doesn't speak a lick of French herself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sosialisti and
I am in fact bilingual in French (not fully, but i read it pretty well) and a lot of the shit she's saying is just wrong as hell.
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