Except that said humans won’t develop the language where those not-words sound kind-of-sensible for a few more thousand years. And even then, most of the people in the world wouldn’t get the joke. (Do French wizards cast French spells? What about the Chinese?)
Excellent point, I’d forgotten about that. Ma-ha-su.
Since Eliezer does nothing accidentally, this is very strong evidence that wizards invent spells with words related to the language they speak, and that spells then have a high turnover rate that doesn’t let them survive longer than their languages.
Except that said humans won’t develop the language where those not-words sound kind-of-sensible for a few more thousand years. And even then, most of the people in the world wouldn’t get the joke. (Do French wizards cast French spells? What about the Chinese?)
Probably. Quirrell teaches at least one spell which is clearly neither of English nor Latin origin.
Excellent point, I’d forgotten about that. Ma-ha-su.
Since Eliezer does nothing accidentally, this is very strong evidence that wizards invent spells with words related to the language they speak, and that spells then have a high turnover rate that doesn’t let them survive longer than their languages.