From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article , Bill Swears   wrote:   
   >On 1/14/2015 11:40 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>    Some years ago [SW] posted either   
   >>>> here or on sf.written about reading a fanfic where Harry Potter uses   
   >>>> the Kamemeha (?) Wave spell against his enemy.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> 	It was a short-short someone had written partly on my remarking on the   
   >>> crossover potential. As I recall it, Harry had vanished and Voldemort   
   >>> then made his move, Hogwarts is in ruins, and then Harry shows up.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	"Voldemort was puzzled. Harry wasn't even using a wand, just moving his   
   >>> hands! And those words weren't Latin! He tried to make sense out of them:   
   >>   
   >> Mind you, most of the Potter magic isn't Latin either.  It's   
   >> gibberish with Latinoid phonemes.   
   >>   
   >Sort of like English, then?   
      
   English has a whole raft of phonemes that don't appear in Latin.   
   Particularly since the Great Vowel Shift.   
      
   No, more like the time I sat in on a prayer service with some   
   people who were into "speaking in tongues."  They were speaking   
   gibberish with English phonemes, English syllabic canon, English   
   suprasegmentals*.  (I was a Linguistics major at the time.)   
      
   _____   
   *Pitch, stress, and juncture.   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
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