Kloves/Britspeak --- SWOON

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

"David " <davisaacs at h...> wrote:

> "But Hagrid, how am I to pay for it all, I haven't any money." 
> This line made me cringe both times I saw it (and others too, this
> is just an example). People in Britain have never, and will never 
> speak like that. If he'd said "But Hagrid, how am I going to pay
> for it all, I haven't got any money?" it would have been much more
> realistic, just because of two words, 'going' and 'got'. 

I'm not doubting you, but I am amused by the contradiction between 
your statement and the ferocious tongue-lashing that some Oxford boy 
gave my friend for a story that she had written that he was checking 
for removal of Americanisms. He went on and on about no one in 
Britain ever says "going to"! Now I wonder if he was deliberately 
deceiving her...

btw, "have never, and will never" is a long time.

Heather wrote:

> Oh, pshaw. It *is* that he's sexy in the movie - admit it.  It's
> the Alan Rickman Effect. Previous examples:

ROTFL over the way you phrased the examples!

> So.... Snape in the books, *decidedly* unsexy; not even close.
> Alan Rickman as Severus Snape == hey, they're going to have to work
> some sort of miracle to outdo him in casting Sirius Black. 

I can't agree with you about Snape in the books. His blatantly 
displayed intellect, his knack with words (both to praise Potions and 
to cut down Harry), his control over students and even some of his 
colleagues, even his dangerousness itself... ooooohh! You're surely 
thinking merely of the description of his physical appearance, the 
greasy hair (which I have been known not to mind) and rotted teeth 
(which I do have a problem with).