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May. 24th, 2003 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gothikmausI found a link to the Harry Potter pronunciation guide and some of the names listed there made me laugh so hard I cried. I tend to forget that JK Rowling is British after all, and so are her characters, so even if the names are or come from Latin, the pronunciation is not. I found some of them quite funny, like "accio", "animagi" and "Firenze", and "knuts" surprised me, it sounded German (I used to study German as well). This probably won't make any sense for English speaking people, but I'm used to the Latin pronunciation, so it was sort of funny to me.
And my favourite was "Voldemort". Hehe, brilliant.
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One of the twins living on the second floor just came down looking for my father. I immediately spotted the problem: tie. He, his brother and their father can't knot their tie, so they always come to us when they need to wear one. My father isn't at home, so I offered to do it up for him and he looked surprised, he was like "You're able to?"
Yes, I am, and so is my mother. My father's technique is finer, but when I want to wear a tie I knot it on my own. I still can't believe it, there are 3 men in that family and none of them can knot his tie. I mean, it's not difficult, I learned how to do it when I was still a child.
Now that I think about it, our neighbour and his 16-year-old son can't do it either.
*shakes head*
Ah, the men of today...
And my favourite was "Voldemort". Hehe, brilliant.
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One of the twins living on the second floor just came down looking for my father. I immediately spotted the problem: tie. He, his brother and their father can't knot their tie, so they always come to us when they need to wear one. My father isn't at home, so I offered to do it up for him and he looked surprised, he was like "You're able to?"
Yes, I am, and so is my mother. My father's technique is finer, but when I want to wear a tie I knot it on my own. I still can't believe it, there are 3 men in that family and none of them can knot his tie. I mean, it's not difficult, I learned how to do it when I was still a child.
Now that I think about it, our neighbour and his 16-year-old son can't do it either.
*shakes head*
Ah, the men of today...
