[HPforGrownups] Re: French Derivatives in HP Character Names

[Leon Adato]

No: HPFGUIDX 40450

In Portugual, when she was married and before she gave birth to her
daughter. She's given interviews where she's joked about how the kids teased
her in the halls about her name.

It also points out why the French translation has so many changes to it
(house names, characters, etc). A lot of thought went into the omnamonapoea
(sp?) of the translated names, whereas other versions (German?) don't show
the same types of changes. But maybe I'm assuming.

Anybody want to talk about whether the Spanish version holds up the theory?

Leon Adato
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arealin [mailto:alina at distantplace.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:35 PM
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: French Derivatives in HP Character Names


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "nplyon" <nplyon at y...> wrote:
> It's obvious to me that JKR speaks
> at least some French, as the structure of the sentences one of the
> Beauxbatons students speaks during the QWC scene (pg. 123 in the US
> hardcover edition "Ou est Madame Maxime?  Nous l'avons perdue--")
> indicates that she did not simply pick up a French dictionary and
> find the French equivalents for the words she wanted to use (or
maybe
> someone else wrote the sentences for her...but I digress).

Reply:

I believe Rowling was a french teacher at one point, isn't that
right?

Alina.



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