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08-17-2012, 12:23 PM
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08-17-2012, 12:28 PM
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Nope. It's pronounced Shame-uss.
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08-17-2012, 04:01 PM
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08-17-2012, 05:24 PM
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I pronounced 'Sirius' as 'Cyrus' for a while. Lucius was also 'Loo-shuss'.
I also pictured Hagrid as Tony the Tiger. I still mentally read his lines with Tony the Tiger's voice. Snape had a neckbeard too.
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08-17-2012, 07:21 PM
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08-17-2012, 08:01 PM
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I thought it was more like Loo-see-uss.
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08-17-2012, 10:41 PM
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08-18-2012, 05:10 AM
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God damn you people need to learn to read.
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08-18-2012, 07:17 PM
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I was taught to read phonetically, which means that anything borrowed from a foreign language is going to be horribly mangled. For example: Akatsuki "Ah Cat Suki" and not " Ah Cut Ski".
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08-18-2012, 07:34 PM
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I came in here to see what I'd been pronouncing wrong in Harry Potter, only to learn that I've been doing Naruto wrong for years as well.
/facepalm
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08-18-2012, 07:39 PM
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08-18-2012, 07:48 PM
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"He was suffering from a pernicious case of ginerva, but the doctor prescribed some antibiotics and a special shampoo; hopefully that will clear it up." There's lumbago, vertigo, and ginerva. God help you if you get all three at once. I know there are a lot of people out there who think Ginny is a disease but, really, 'Ginerva?' I've just never understood that one. It doesn't sound like something you'd name a human being... more like a classification for fungus. 
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08-18-2012, 07:48 PM
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08-18-2012, 11:45 PM
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I used to pronounce it Lu-Key-Us, as in the latin name.
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08-19-2012, 03:36 AM
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08-19-2012, 05:43 AM
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08-19-2012, 09:01 AM
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I, too, was under the belief that Ginny's full name was Ginerva. Well, live and learn. Seamus was 'Seam-uss' too, at least until the movies.
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08-19-2012, 02:52 PM
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I don't know why, but I remember when I first read Harry Potter 7, I thought that the '19 years later' bit was a lot more than 19 years later. So I pictured Harry & co. as upper-middle aged, instead of in their 30s.
Even once I figured out it was only 19 years later, I couldn't get rid of the mental image until the movie came out. xD |
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08-22-2012, 02:49 AM
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That Harry Potter was a wizard with magical powers who attended Hogwarts.
http://imgur.com/gallery/wq8Xm In all seriousness, I also got the pronunciation wrong on Sirius. Also, I don't remember exactly if I thought this and this would be a fairly large misconception if so but I believe there was a strong chance I thought Tonks was a man when I first read OotP. Yes, that's a fairly large reading fail but I was much younger then and was probably just gobbling down the book as fast as I could. Last misconception I had(and this is just my personal opinion here) that PoA (my favorite Hp book) would eventually be outclassed by a later book in the series. To me it never was, and remains my favorite. I'm not sure why I liked PoA so much but I just find that one to be particularly excellent. It was also a refreshing change that Voldemort really wasn't in the book at all and instead focused on characters like Lupin, Sirius, and Peter. |
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08-22-2012, 02:51 AM
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PoA was my favorite as well.
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