But you don't have to write it like that. . . ever, right?
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sumi - Aug 27, 2007 4:24:21 am PDT #2687 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
Ailleann - Aug 27, 2007 4:33:01 am PDT #2688 of 3301
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Because either way, I would think that Sirius, James, and Remus would think it suspicious that Peter becomes a rat.
I thought it was supposed to be a bit foreshadowy for the reader, but at the time the boys wouldn't really think much of it. I think the animals they became (Remus notwithstanding) were very reflective of their personalities.
(Note: this may be a conclusion based more on fanfic than canon.)
Fay - Aug 27, 2007 6:29:17 am PDT #2689 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
IIRC, yes, but it's pronounced 'weskit' if you're being authenticlike.
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Trudy Booth - Aug 27, 2007 6:30:33 am PDT #2690 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
IIRC, yes, but it's pronounced 'weskit' if you're being authenticlike.
But you don't have to write it like that. . . ever, right?
Only in American catalogues.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2007 6:32:32 am PDT #2691 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
But St. John is pronounced sin-jun, right?
Fay - Aug 27, 2007 6:36:27 am PDT #2692 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
It is, yes. I was at school with a boy called St.John, and he was most startled that I happened to know how to spell it.
...it struck me the other day, on that basis, that Sinclair is presumably a derivation of St Clare.
Hil R. - Aug 27, 2007 7:08:46 am PDT #2693 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
...it struck me the other day, on that basis, that Sinclair is presumably a derivation of St Clare.
In the second Anne of Green Gables book, there's a little boy named St. Clare. His mother is very insistant on the "proper" pronunciation of their last name, Donnell -- it's Don-NELL, not DON-nell -- and I always wondered whether St. Clare was meant to be pronounced Sinclair, but it's never mentioned in the text.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2007 7:19:03 am PDT #2694 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It is, yes. I was at school with a boy called St.John, and he was most startled that I happened to know how to spell it.
Took me forever to figure out what I was hearing (like DECADES) but when I was in grade school, I used to listen to a Monty Python record where one of the characters is Norman St. John Polevaulter. I couldn't figure out how the name Sinjun was really spelt. Heh.
I think it might have been seeing the movie of SLEUTH, where the name of Olivier's detective in his novels was Lord St. John Merridew.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2007 7:22:55 am PDT #2695 of 3301
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I don't think I figured out the Sinjun thing until I read a romance novel where the female protagonist insisted on being called Sinjun, and the author spelled it that way.
Jessica - Aug 27, 2007 7:27:52 am PDT #2696 of 3301
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, it took me ages to connect the written St. John name with the pronounciation -- I'd encountered both, but it never occured to me that they were the same word. I think it might have finally clicked when I saw the movie version of Jane Eyre.