Language minutiae

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 6056

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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?

And I am convinced that the U.S. magic school, in the truly inventive 
style of those Puritan settlers, is called New Hogwarts.  Although by 
now they have probably sold the rights to the name and it is 
officially called The Panasonic School of Magic.

--Joywitch