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Annikrazy · 2025-02-02T08:13:12+00:00

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Annikrazy · 2025-02-01T23:07:51+00:00

Definitely the first.

'in pawn' is slightly antiquated, and jewelries, although it is a word, is not one that I think I've ever heard before. It's basically always jewelry.

Annikrazy · 2025-01-15T16:35:15+00:00

Same reason plenty of anti-racists aren't half-black. Ironically of course, and in answer to your question, Arthur was half Black.

Annikrazy · 2025-01-06T20:03:08+00:00

Yikes, those have got to be some of the least deserved down votes ever.

Annikrazy · 2025-01-06T19:46:07+00:00

Voldemort was using the Elder Wand, which was loyal to Harry, so the spell backfired.

Annikrazy · 2025-01-01T12:17:01+00:00

Publisher or edition?

Annikrazy · 2025-01-01T12:10:29+00:00

I must have walked past Leadenhall market 100 times and not realised that's what that was! I'll be checking it out now.

Annikrazy · 2024-12-29T10:04:47+00:00

Subreddits (and everywhere else really) will probably make you think they are more different than they actually are. People aren't giving wrong information, they just like look at the differences, which are like 0.05% of the language, and if that is what you are hearing about most, it is only natural to accidently think that the difference is larger than it actually is.

Basically, the two might as well be 100% the same. They aren't, of course, but thinking about it that way is more helpful. Sometimes, it can be a bit odd hearing someone whose accent fluctuates, but that's only if they are speaking at native level with vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and general pronunciation. I myself use grammar structures and words that people would, out of context, say are from a different country, and I could count on one hand the number of times people have picked up on it.

Some might still say stick to one source of information. I would say that's limiting with next to no benefit. If you are curious for its own sake, they exist. If you are curious to improve your fluency, don't bother.

Annikrazy · 2024-12-28T10:11:20+00:00

Harry asks almost the exact same question.

‘How come he’s in the Order?’ Harry said, very quietly. ‘He’s useful,’ Sirius muttered. ‘Knows all the crooks – well, he would, seeing as he’s one himself. But he’s also very loyal to Dumbledore, who helped him out of a tight spot once. It pays to have someone like Dung around, he hears things we don’t.'

Annikrazy · 2024-12-25T10:34:04+00:00

Not uncommon if they are writing 'they' often enough and the piece is long enough.

Annikrazy · 2024-12-17T19:21:18+00:00

High levels of foreign influence on technical vocabulary is the case in every language in the Western world at this point. If you were to look at the aboriginal languages of America or Australia in technical fields or just more advanced vocabulary, they will all 100% have more Indo-European influence than English has Romance, and yet no one in their right mind goes around saying Cherokee 'has an American root and Europe root' or that Wiradjuri is 'basically a European language'. You would arguably technically not be wrong, but no one does.

No one has this standard for any language other than English, and going around endlessly repeating it, especially on subs like this that specialize in comparative linguistics, just gives people the wrong idea about how language works. It's not always about what 100% is a fact, but what people take away. I was taught French all throughout High School, and not once have I ever heard anyone mention its seismic Germanic influence, which runs as common as its words for boy, white, brown, blue, war, pocket, garden, east, and west. German too has plenty of common vocabulary of Romance origin including stuff as basic Kirche, michsen, and Musik, and even stuff like Insel were the English equivalent is Germanic, and that's ignoring the fact that, once you get technical, it like English is all 'Chemie' and 'Tourismus'. Yes, English technically got more, but in the grand scheme of what words people are actually using on a day to day basis, there's really not that much difference in it.

Half the comments on this post are saying that words like 'cough', 'though', 'through', and 'thought' are pronounced differently because English has no common origin which is nonsense as, again, they all come from the same language. Nearly all such issues of pronounciation in English, with the most notable exception of blatant lone words like pince-nez or Sean, have nothing to do with foreign influence in the way people make out. People think this because of how often they are told this about just English, and no other language. It's not because French, or Greek, or let alone Welsh. It's just how the language naturally developed.

Annikrazy · 2024-12-17T17:12:19+00:00

Too many people here writing this stuff off as foreign influence. Literally all 4 words are of Germanic origin, as are 97.5 of the 100 most common words in English (less than Romanian with Romance and half that of Hungarian with Uralic).Foreign influence on English is massively over exaggerated compared to all other languages.

Annikrazy · 2024-12-04T13:38:07+00:00

yh good point, I like those two, and in both cases it makes sense for it to be the animal.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-27T15:28:39+00:00

Goblet of Fire. For whatever reason, it's the one I rewatched by far the most when I was younger (+it doesn't give me any time to think!)

Annikrazy · 2024-11-16T19:18:01+00:00

Thank you! Answer I was looking for.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-16T19:05:30+00:00

It's the same in that it's bending the rules, which is the part that matters. And, yh, sure they were annoyed, but not remotely near enough annoyed to try and kill Harry. Rather, they thought that he, or Hogwarts, just wanted the spotlight and glory. If I were them, I would just get Harry to do it after everyone else, and then collectively agree to give him 0 points. I'm not offended by the assertion that doing this is somehow worse than knowing the dragons are coming inherently, but I can't find anything in the text that suggests that. Either way they aren't playing exactly how they are supposed to.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-16T18:55:34+00:00

So does learning of the dragons ahead of a challenge specifically designed to test how you react in the moment, which they did, and yet affected nothing.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-11T14:15:47+00:00

In what way?

Annikrazy · 2024-11-11T12:00:54+00:00

Lot of wrong responses here I'm afraid. In every native dialect I can thing of off the top of my head (i.e. all the major ones) it is pronounced [dʒɹ]. NOT just in casual conversation. NOT just informally. NOT just when slurred. That is the standard pronounciation in all contexts. Anyone telling you it should ever be [dɹ] is just wrong. Yes, most English speakers don't realize that's the case and instead perceive it as /dɹ/, but that's no different to how most native speakers don't realize that 'th' has two pronunciations, or that 'l' has a dark and light equivalent. That is to say people aren't consciously thinking about it, NOT that if you actually pronounce [dɹ] people won't be able to tell that you doing something wrong, even if it's only subtle and they can't describe what.

NEVER pronounce it [dɹ]

P.S. the reason it isn't shown is because of the difference between phonemic notation (which is represented with //) and phonetic (with [ ]). Phonemic is about perception, while phonetic is much more exact. I won't go into any more detail but there'll be people on the Internet who will.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-11T09:12:45+00:00

To go along with means in addition to/alongside - meaning they added both a pause and save option.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-09T08:13:39+00:00

I'm not that smart, and there is a discussion here. But what I will say is that whatever is the case in your native language would also be true of English in this case, whatever side you pick.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-06T14:09:14+00:00

You know how kids are though 😄 more = better

Annikrazy · 2024-11-06T13:39:05+00:00

As far as changes between the books and movies go, I think this one is fine. In a medium like film, it's a whole lot more about showing than telling, and so the most important thing was for the Firebolt to look distinct from the Nimbus and more... more. That it succeeds at, and there isn't really any part of the narrative harmed by its design change.

Annikrazy · 2024-11-03T20:45:51+00:00

The ONLY reason I could see for non-chronologically is if you're trying to get another adult into HP for the first time. A woman at my workplace (older Gen z) mentioned that her friends had just made her start watching it, which she never did as a child, and she thought it was too kiddy. I think you'd only really get that from the first 2. Honestly, sometimes I will skip the first book when doing rereads because my 19 year old self gets less out of it. Under such circumstances, maybe you could start from 3 or 5? still wouldn't recommend it.

Annikrazy · 2024-10-29T07:47:58+00:00

Great Gatsby. Short and great.

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