Summer of the Dragon: Apologies

[rosie_rues]

Sorry - chapter two won't be up until tomorrow. Because I am crap and disorganised, and what I have is handwritten and needs to be typed up.

In the meantime, have a random picture of one of the many places I have been today...




As taken at ten to six this evening.

a.k.a. it would have only been a six-hour round trip to go home, if I hadn't been dropped into an impromptu family reunion...



Um, imperioed? imperio'ed? imperied? imperio'd? imperavit?

Comments

[ex-stateline124.livejournal.com]

hee! i didn't realize they'd actually left that up! it's amusing how much HP has become a part of the general culture.

[rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com]

It's the only Harry Potter reference at King's Cross, which I've always liked, because it's discreet (I don't think it's a film relic, though - they used the wrong platforms in the film). It's fun to watch people's double takes. :)

[ex-stateline124.livejournal.com]

the discreetness is definitely what makes it -- the eye just slides over it. fabulous.

[copa-cetic.livejournal.com]

Imperius'd?
Imperio'd?
hit with the imperius curse?
Gdfsjfkddflkggdkfdjgkfdkldlkgd

*will read fic if it is up when I come home from school tomorrow*

[rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com]

Everything I try looks weird. The latin should have been pluperfect, as well - imperaverat, I think, rather than imperavit.

It should be up by then. I just need to type what I wrote on the train today, and add a few more paragraphs.

[ex-stateline124.livejournal.com]

i think JKR sticks to "under Imperius", just to keep things simple, and i generally just anglicize the latin terms -- imperioed is most natural to me, but hell if i know anything about latin. ;) i remember at one point there was a kerfluffle over 'animagistera' (yeah, can't spell that one) being the proper term for a female animagus, but honestly, it just gets a little ridiculous. the average hogwarts student doesn't know anything about latin either, so it seems perfectly reasonable to just anglicize it, unless properly declining it serves some sort of purpose?

[rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I'm only messing about with the Latin to stay awake. Considering how erratic JKR's Latin is, I don't think fandom should take the language too seriously.

I was just worried there might be an official spelling I'd forgotten. They all look peculiar to me.

[ex-stateline124.livejournal.com]

hee, i know that feeling. "oh, this is just a minor detail, but LOOK AT ALL THE SHINY PICTURES WIKIPEDIA HAS!" if i didn't spend so much time "researching" for fics, i might actually write one every once in a while. :D

the apostrophe version -- say, like, Imperio'ed -- might be the easiest to read, since all the vowels make 'Imperioed' a bit messy.

in the interest of grammar fanaticism...

[sweet-angel-398.livejournal.com]

i disagree. apostrophes don't belong anywhere except for contractions and possessiveness, and if you go sticking them in places they don't belong it'll end up being seen as a typo by at least some who read it. I think Imperioed is perfectly valid. A few vowels never hurt anyone; just look at the rest of the English language, after all.

At any rate, I'm psyched for chapter 2!!! Yayyyyyyy.

Re: in the interest of grammar fanaticism...

[rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com]

That's certainly my gut-reaction as well - apostrophes indicate omission (even in possession where they're a remnant of the old genitive -es ending). I have seen the word with the apostrophe, though, so I was worried that might be the official version.

*chuckles* 15 more minutes at work, and I can dash home to finish it.