Timeline for If Harry spoke two or more languages, what would it sound like to him if he talked to a snake?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 20:50 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @jpmc26 Hey, we've pulled some of them. Just not the breaking changes. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Patrice | @Janus so Harry wouldn't be able to understand a smake who wasn't 'english' because he'd be speaking German through parseltongue? Feels awkward to me... | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 13:52 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I’m not sure if I quite agree with this answer. I think jingyu9575’s answer below, while not fleshed out, is probably closer to the mark. Parseltongue isn’t a language as such: it’s a way of representing language through a different set of speech organs. The snake in the zoo was speaking English through Parseltongue. So I’d say Harry would hear whatever language the snake was actually speaking. (This of course entails that snakes underlyingly speak human languages, which is nonsense—but that’s always been how I read the books, nonsense or not.) | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 2:41 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @Valorum No, we speak a fork of British English. We needed to improve on it, but you guys wouldn't pull our change requests. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 23:32 | comment | added | Major Stackings | Engish speakers? I think most of us are merely english typers. We'd probably require translators in order for everybody to be able to understand eachother face to face. ;) | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | Valorum | Americans also speak a garbled form of English, you say? | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | Adamant | @Valorum - No doubt. By American English speakers (such as myself) as well. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | Valorum | For the record, although the word "Amigo" isn't a British-English word, it's a word that would be immediately understood by British-English speakers | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 21:06 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 20:56 | history | answered | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |