06-30-2003, 04:51 PM | #81 |
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I was surprised by the line too. But words in British English are used differently. I did think it was funny that they left it in in the American version since that is basically only used in a sexual manner in the US. We don't even say "The water ejaculated from the bottle" We say "squirted". I can picture a lot of 13 years olds going around in class saying "ejaculated" when they are talking about someone yelling something. As for the death scene - I was disappointed. I feel sorry for Harry - but basically the description of Sirius's death had no feeling to it. It was just people saying he's gone, never coming back. I also don't trust the veil thing - I just think there is a way to get him out or at least talk to him. I actually thought it was going to be Neville who died. I figured he was going to sacrfice himself to protect Harry by jumping between Harry and Voldemort. I just thought in the end Neville was going to die as a hero. and be a really emotional death. Or else the other person I thought it would be was Ginny for the same reason. Ron seeing his sister die would have been very eomtional. But I was left feeling empty with the whole Sirius death thing. It had no emotional impact and I liked Sirius - so I'm sorry he's dead. There has to be some reason for Sirius's "death" though. It has to be important in some way to the plot. I had problems with the book - because too much of it seems to be spent setting up things for the next book. As has been mentioned - there was nothing said at all about the Prophecy until the last couple of chapters. So much of the book was just Harry having that unfinished "dream" - but then no one giving any hints nor anyone really attempting to figure out what it was. It was just so much in the dark until the very end. I also thought that the situation with Umbridge was wrapped up too quickly Too much of the book was wrpped up too quickly in the last couple of chapters.
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The primary def. is the verbal action and not, er... anyway, it isn't commonly used for obvious reasons. Why she chose to use it I can only guess; maybe to entertain 13 year old boys.
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i think JD was just waiting for an excuse to post something like that . He told me on AIM that that is why he made that post.
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06-30-2003, 08:11 PM | #89 |
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Well, I dont' see what the fuss is about. I've seen it used in that fashion in quite a few books. *shrug*
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Well, that'll teach y'all to be so potty-headed.
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Well, with all that's been said after I brought the subject up, I was wondering if there was a mix-up between the american publicaction and the european one. It reminds me of the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and what I've been hearing about it's title being changed for british and other british colonized audiences (the non-american ones, of course).
Anyway, the Scholastic Edtion was the one that had this and is also what shipped to Manila. We had lotsa people pointing it out too and grinning since we're mostly brought up on the american english system.
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Heh. Snerk.
As regarding changes for America, as far as I am concerned, the less changes the better. None at all would make me happiest. I much prefer reading the book the way it was actually written (now there's a concept), even if it's a supposedly different language system. tano
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I just checked my book, and it's no wonder I didn't notice that word: because it's not in my version. It has '"We're not going to use magic?" Ron exclaimed loudly.' So they must've changed the word for the American version. I wonder why?
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ohhh yeah i pictured Ainsley Harriot playing Kingsley but Samuel L Jackson would be awesome too (is that the Shaft your refering to?) in any case if they got Jackson in to do it it would add so many classy lines to the movie "english mother****er, do you speak it?" or when he busts in at the end in the Department of Mysteries "this parties over" then cursing everything to death
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