Oh! Circe!
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resonantI've stopped thinking of this as a practical problem and started thinking of it as a linguistic puzzle.
What would wizards use where we use blasphemy?
The elements? "Fire and water, I could use a drink just now."
Place names important in the history of magic? "Will you stop that awful noise? Salem, it's annoying."
Are there any Latin exclamations? The only one I remember from high school was io, which is pronounced more or less "yo" and thus would add an unfortunate bit of MTVishness to the proceedings.
What would wizards use where we use blasphemy?
The elements? "Fire and water, I could use a drink just now."
Place names important in the history of magic? "Will you stop that awful noise? Salem, it's annoying."
Are there any Latin exclamations? The only one I remember from high school was io, which is pronounced more or less "yo" and thus would add an unfortunate bit of MTVishness to the proceedings.
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Date: 9/12/02 12:39 am (UTC)Thinking about the ones silviakundera listed above reminds me that they're all still kids in the books so far, and kids curse or profane quite a bit with fairly silly, sniggery rude words. "Bogies" or "pants", that sort of thing.
The backfiring slugs could be a way in. Maybe grown-up wizards would swear with things they could afflict on each other. "Boils to him, he shouldn't have walked off in the first place." "Oh pestilence, I've laddered my tights again"...
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Date: 9/12/02 12:45 am (UTC)Mmmkay, shutting up now!