[HPforGrownups] Re: Horcrux: was Baptism/Christianity in HP

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 153700

 
 
 

> > Leslie41:
> > Do you doubt that "crux" means "cross"?  
> 
> a_svirn:
> I don't. It was your neologism *whorecrosses*  that sounds like 
> rubbish to me, not your translation of *crux*.  
> 
Nikkalmati: 
Connecting words by means of sound is not an accepted etymological  
technique.  Hor- has nothing to do with whore.  I also find the image  of the cross, as 
a religious symbol, and the concept of a whore a troubling and  inappropriate 
juxtaposition. 
Nikkalmati




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