Wizarding English: was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: If Muggles are unaware of Wizards

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 49691

bboy_mn wrote:

>
> Let's add some perspective to this.
>
> How is it that the Scottish and the Irish have failed to keep up with
> modern English, for that matter, from an American perspective, how is
> it that the English have failed to keep up?

Thanks for helping me to refine my point:
UK and America is actually quite a good analogy: they are not completely
isolated, there are contacts, visits, people read books and watch movies -
it's at least as much interaction as modern wizards seem to have with
muggles.
And yet the languages went their own separate ways.

>
> Compare how Harry and Ron talk relative to the way Daniel and Rupert
> talk, and I think you will see that Harry and Ron speak a very basic
> standard quality English. It's not colored by modern phrases, or
> ethnic brogue. Harry and Ron don't describe anything and everthing
> they see as being either 'cool' or 'wicked'.

The point is - Harry and Ron speak the same, despite their very different
upbringing. Ron only has wizarding books and wizarding radio and
yet his vocabulary and speech patterns are the same as Harry's.

Irene