HP in latin (from main list)

Martin Smith mediaphen at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 7 07:42:58 UTC 2001


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Elizabeth Dalton <Elizabeth.Dalton at E...>
wrote:
> Soo... in the Ancient Greek version, they could leave the spells in
> Latin, I suppose (though it would be chronologically weird), but
what
> are they going to do with the spells in the Latin version? It would
be
> pretty weird to leave them as is. (And might not be correct Latin,
> either-- JKR did say that she did the research for their names on
her
> own.)

>raolin replied:
>There's not really any language that is to Latin what Latin is to
>us.  Maybe they could cast them in Proto-Indo-European?  ;)


And I say, how about Quenya? And maybe Uruk for the unforgivable curses.
Yeah, that's it...

Martin (less than two weeks till the premiere)







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