[HPforGrownups] Pronunciation

[illyana delorean]

No: HPFGUIDX 52551

in response to GulPlum AKA Richard's post, I wrote:
>
>><http://www.hogwarts.esmartweb.com/pronunciations.htm>http://www.hogwarts.esmartweb.com/pronunciations.htm
>>
>>Hope that helps! It's a good site, the pronounciation list is pretty
>>comprehensive, so you should check it out if you have any
>>pronounciation problems!

the he countered with:

>Oh, I don't have a pronunciation problem. ;-) You appear to have
>misunderstood the thrust of my post. I was asking for opinions about how
>other HPFGUers pronounce the word "Aminagus".
>
>The website you mentioned (which I know, and which featured in my previous
>discussion of this topic elsewhere) is just someone's opinion. I can see no
>indication that the author is a linguist or otherwise professionally
>qualified to have an opinion more valid than anyone else's.  Please note
>that I'm not questioning the author's integrity, I am not questioning their
>right to offer an opinion, nor am I saying right now whether or not I agree
>with them. All I'm saying is that it's just an opinion which is ultimately
>just as valid as anyone else's.
>
>In other words, can one person's opinion be "right" when it comes to
>invented words (although perhaps the inventor's opinion carries just a
>little weight)? :-)
>

now, it's my turn again:

I apologize for misunderstanding your post, and I definately did not 
mean to say that *you* have a pronounciation problem! I was actually 
using the general "you" - to mean anyone on the list. Now that I read 
my post, though, I can see how I could have made that more clear, and 
I apologize once again!

Anyway, I personally say "a-knee-MAH-gus" ("mah" as in "man" - not 
"mall"), but I am sure that if I were more learned in the ways of 
language, I would probably pronounce it differently. That's just how 
I read the word the first time I saw it, and first impressions (or 
pronounciations, in this case) stick in my mind forever!

So, is "animagus" really a made-up word? Obviously, it has some kind 
of base ("animal"), but I always thought that it was a real word in 
some language. I am probably wrong, though!

Lastly, I would like to say that I definately had a lot of problems 
with pronouncing some of the names and spells in the Harry Potter 
books the first time I read them. I actually consulted a friend about 
the pronounciations, because she had heard the books-on-tape and we 
assumed that those pronounciations were correct. So, none of us 
should be ashamed if we have any pronounciation problems!

illyana

p.s. It does bug me when people say "serious" when reading Sirius' 
name. It is the name of a star (and a satellite radio company), and 
is not made up (I know all of you already know this)! I met a 
self-proclaimed "Harry Potter genius" who mispronounced the name, and 
it really got on my nerves!



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