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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2005, 02:07:22 AM »
Really? I didn't even think about buying tickets in advance. Do you do that online?
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2005, 09:23:22 PM »
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2005, 09:46:49 PM »
Is anyone else bugged by the way Dumbledore pronounces "Beauxbatons?"
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2005, 03:40:15 AM »
Yes.

My family are die-hard fans of the audio versions read by Jim Dale. So, for better or worse, I pronounce everything in the books the way Jim Dale does.

But at least he has a British accent.

Although Beauxbatons is supposedly French, and Jim Dale uses a softer pronounciation that seems French to me. He pronounces "batons" like the object that you would twirl--a baton.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2005, 04:10:08 AM »
As a theoretical francophone, it bothers me when people massacre French, in any context.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2005, 05:29:40 AM »
good thing i haven't heard it.  i hate when people butcher french.  des moines is the worst! "of the monks" is what it means.  you wouldn't expect it having seen or been there.  
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2005, 07:35:09 AM »
French is a language meant to be butchered, especially by drunk Scotts.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2005, 09:54:17 AM »
Hear hear!
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2005, 10:18:36 AM »
I think I would find it quite entertaining to hear a drunken Scot attempting to speak French.

Or is Scott someone's name, and are we really talking about drunk Scotts?
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2005, 10:42:12 AM »
making fun of Sprig's spelling has actually become somewhat passe. Or at least boring.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2005, 12:47:37 PM »
And making fun of the French hasn't?
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2005, 12:48:55 PM »
Making fun of the French *never* gets old.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2005, 02:42:09 PM »
Well, here's a new reason to make fun of the French, for those of you calloused enough not to care:

Violent riots have been raging throughout France for the past two weeks.  Nearly 6000 vehicles have been burned, and there have been about 120 police and firefighter injuries.  Last night, Chirac declared that France was in a state of emergency.
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2005, 03:24:23 PM »
I've heard about that, and have been wondering, because none of the radio news seems to know why people are rioting, just something blurry to do with North African immigrants or something?
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Re: Harry Potter 4 -- The Goblet of Fire
« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2005, 04:11:31 PM »
because they're french. They are above your logic and "reasons"
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