Like imagine if I looked over a chart of the Western Zodiac and fixated on one bizarre random thing -- "Pisces are especially known for their love of music" And then I went and made my wizard book where the Pisces Potion specifically gave you the ability to play the guitar
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And when I was asked what the origin of the Pisces Potion was I totally misremembered the details and just said "Well, in the Northern European dialect of Zociad, the word Pisces means 'good at music'" And then all the Asian people in the world thought that's what it meant
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It's just a huge pile of Wrong in one single Fun Fact from the Harry Potter-verse
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Misremembering Madagascar as being in "West Africa" Confusing the Malagasy language with the divination practice of Sikidy Misspelling Sikidy "Sidiki" And then thinking one aspect of the sign was the sign's whole meaning
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It's just... really fucking lazy and disrespectful It would not be a big deal -- it would be depressingly par for the course -- if it were just some random fantasy book But of course it's a big deal now because the books became a big deal And she never raised her standards
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This is the same shitty level of research she put into bloviating about skinwalkers in Navajo culture or naga in Hindu culture Hell, it's the same shitty level of research she put into talking about boggarts and brownies and other elements of *English* culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean, note the bit where she includes “Cornish Pixies”. That’s … not right ...
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It’s *trivially* easy to check what the Cornish word for what are called pixies in Anglo-Saxon England is. But Rowling isn’t interested in doing even that minimal level of research.
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So wait, is it that they're called "piskies" in Cornwall and this was corrupted to "pixies" in England or am I misunderstanding what I'm seeing online
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Piskies is Cornish. English “Pixies” is a related word, but probably not a direct corruption I think.
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Well, Wikipedia says the origin of the word "pixie" is unknown, but seems to have been a word people started using around Cornwall and Devon that spread outward It even says that Terry Pratchett's pun "pictsies" might have actual truth to it
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