Language minutiae

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 6040

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 
> I'm happy to ramble on forever about things linguistic, but oddly, 
people
> seem to glaze over after a few minutes, so you may now all go back 
to things
> that interest you. Thank you and goodnight.
> 
I found the linguistic discussion very interesting, but then again I 
am a nerd and I am accustomed to seeing other peoples eyes glaze over 
while I blather on about things I think are interesting.  One thing 
that strikes me is that the different languages evolve somewhat 
slowly over periods of 100s of years, sometimes 1000s.  If the other 
magical schools were founded around the same time as Hogwarts, would 
it be logical to assume that one school was developed in each of the 
regions speaking the main languages at the time?  So, our search for 
where all the magical schools should be should perhaps be based on 
language rather than geography. Although Latin seems to be the basis 
for most of the spells. Hmmmmm.

ALthough a linguistic analysis of the origin of magical schools is I 
am sure pretty nutty, since JKR probably just arbitrarilly just 
picked  a few venues for the 3 schools she has made up so far.

--Joywitch