• MudMan@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    So do you think magic is picky about spelling, then?

    Because if you’ve ever heard our best guess for what European languages sounded like next to Latin what you’re basically saying here is that magic in English would work as long as you have a thick Scottish accent but wouldn’t do well at all with a New York accent.

    And at that point I think none of the Latin you hear in movies would work at all, because most of it sounds like an English person trying to sing a song in Portuguese they heard once in the 90s.

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      9 months ago

      Well, that depends on your magic I guess. I’m not the one to say merely speaking Latin would summon demons.

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        9 months ago

        Well, yeah, but seeing how all magic is made up, when the writer of the story makes it up to work like that I happen to find it pretty silly.

        You know, a pet peeve.