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
She wasn't, though. She was being paid many-million dollar advances to write entertaining books. If she wants to claim Latin is a corrupted form of the Sorceror's Tongue, similar in some ways but not identical, then she's not a mile from Tolkien's handling of Elvish.
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Replying to @BofingerDavid @arthur_affect
That's extremely not true; Tolkien did too MUCH research, if anything, and he also actually had some fucking expertise on the subject being as HE WAS A PHILOLOGIST.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect
Sure, and no one says Tolkien tried to make the elves speak Finnish/Welsh but got it wrong. They recognise that Quenya/Sindarin is supposedly *related* to Finnish/Welsh. JKR could use the same argument to explain why her Latin is wrong. Don't know if she's bothered.
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Replying to @BofingerDavid @arthur_affect
She could, but anyone with any linguistic knowledge would know that it's a fucking stupid statement, because language change doesn't work in any of the ways that Rowling's terrible cod-Latin does.
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Replying to @iridienne @BofingerDavid
I even said upfront that the dog-Latin is not the point of the thread The appropriation of Malagasy culture is the point of the thread, since it was deeply thoughtless almost to the point of being an open insult (the "*West African dialect* of *Sidiki*"?!)
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I know that "Imperio!" sounds cooler than "Impero!", because all of the variants of "imperium" we're used to in English have the I after the R Whatever I only brought that up as an open cheap shot at her because, frankly, she deserves to have cheap shots taken at her
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