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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I'm honestly on the floor by now. It doesn't matter what the stem might or might not mean in French. Rowling isn't writing for a French audience!
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One of the things she is often praised for is constructing words and names that draw a mind picture. So she knows that, for that mind picture to *be correct*, it can't be an existing English word that means the opposite!
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Remember when WoW totally ripped that off but used a homonym that also doesn't mean what they think it doespic.twitter.com/zxklOOtC87
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I guess mana is stored in the nerves
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