Language minutiae

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6049

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:

> 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.

LOL. I love the language discussion, your witty phraseology, and 
making up more schools of magic. Back when we were on Yahoo, I 
asserted that the wizarding school which must exist in Iraq uses 
Aramaic as the language of instruction and, being the first school, 
has a really imaginative name like "The School".  And the wizarding 
school which must exist in Egypt and probably was the second 
school, uses Coptic as the language of instruction and has a much 
more creative name "The School of Magic". And then I wondered, when 
they eventually change to using classical Arabic as the language of 
instruction (having already changed from Sumerian to Babylonian to 
Aramaic in one case, from Old Egyptian to Middle Egyptian to Coptic 
in the other case), will they merge?