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Post by Bink Brancer on Jul 25, 2007 15:34:59 GMT 3
Have people on QBB finished reading Deathly Hallows yet? Is it safe to put up spoilers already?
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 25, 2007 15:36:40 GMT 3
Its HARRY Potter, Joe. HARRY.
I'm on page 300 at the moment. Fire away ;D
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Post by Bink Brancer on Jul 25, 2007 15:39:23 GMT 3
I know a person who insists it's GARY. Apparently some people have a problem pronouncing "H" sounds.
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 25, 2007 15:41:02 GMT 3
Apparently some people have a problem pronouncing "H" sounds. Yeah, Frenchie!  He sounds totally like Fleur Delacour! |
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Post by eve on Jul 25, 2007 15:41:28 GMT 3
Me haven't been to Virgin to get my copy !!!! And Jarir doesnt have one !
Anyways, spoilers do not affect me .... so fire away - no issues with me.
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Post by Curly Curls on Jul 25, 2007 16:12:55 GMT 3
Apparently some people have a problem pronouncing "H" sounds. Yeah, Frenchie! He sounds totally like Fleur Delacour! In the French language, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French language classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways that must be learned to use French properly, even though it is a silent letter either way. The h muet, or "mute h", is considered as though the letter were not there at all, so masculine nouns get the article le replaced by the sequence l'. Similarly, words such as un, whose pronunciation would elide onto the following word would do so for a word with h muet. For example Le hébergement becomes L'hébergement. The other way is called h aspiré, or "aspirated h" (though it is still not aspirated) and is treated as a phantom consonant. Hence masculine nouns get the le, separated from the noun with a bit of a glottal stop. There is no elision with such a word; the preceding word is kept separate by similar means. Most words that begin with an h muet come from Latin (honneur, homme) or from Greek through Latin (hécatombe), whereas most words beginning with an h aspiré come from Germanic (harpe, hareng) or non-Indo-European languages (harem, hamac, haricot). As is generally the case with French, there are numerous exceptions. In some cases, an h muet was added to disambiguate the [v] and semivowel [ɥ] pronunciations: huit (from uit, ultimately from Latin octo), huître (from uistre, ultimately from Greek through Latin ostrea). Some of these distinctions have been preserved in English through Anglo-French: an honour vs. a harp. Dictionaries mark those words that have this second kind of h with a preceding mark, either an asterisk, a dagger, or a little circle lower than a degree-symbol. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Usage_in_French) I'd like to add the 'h' is prononced like 'hasch', and "aspirated hasch" is still illegal. We'll rediscuss it when you'll pronounce proper nasal vowels And when bully will be able to say the letter e ( /ə/ ) as in "le" ;D |
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Post by eve on Jul 25, 2007 16:19:13 GMT 3
That's like my french teacher explaining about the missing "H" !!!! Too bad for people whose name start with that alphabet and then to listen to the french version of their names  |
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Post by unanimous on Jul 25, 2007 20:53:01 GMT 3
Yeah, Frenchie! He sounds totally like Fleur Delacour! In the French language, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French language classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways that must be learned to use French properly, even though it is a silent letter either way. The h muet, or "mute h", is considered as though the letter were not there at all, so masculine nouns get the article le replaced by the sequence l'. Similarly, words such as un, whose pronunciation would elide onto the following word would do so for a word with h muet. For example Le hébergement becomes L'hébergement. The other way is called h aspiré, or "aspirated h" (though it is still not aspirated) and is treated as a phantom consonant. Hence masculine nouns get the le, separated from the noun with a bit of a glottal stop. There is no elision with such a word; the preceding word is kept separate by similar means. Most words that begin with an h muet come from Latin (honneur, homme) or from Greek through Latin (hécatombe), whereas most words beginning with an h aspiré come from Germanic (harpe, hareng) or non-Indo-European languages (harem, hamac, haricot). As is generally the case with French, there are numerous exceptions. In some cases, an h muet was added to disambiguate the [v] and semivowel [ɥ] pronunciations: huit (from uit, ultimately from Latin octo), huître (from uistre, ultimately from Greek through Latin ostrea). Some of these distinctions have been preserved in English through Anglo-French: an honour vs. a harp. Dictionaries mark those words that have this second kind of h with a preceding mark, either an asterisk, a dagger, or a little circle lower than a degree-symbol. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Usage_in_French) I'd like to add the 'h' is prononced like 'hasch', and "aspirated hasch" is still illegal. We'll rediscuss it when you'll pronounce proper nasal vowels And when bully will be able to say the letter e ( /ə/ ) as in "le" ;D EASY. ble blo ble ble ble bla ;D |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 25, 2007 21:48:52 GMT 3
Or like PM did it: fee fee fee fa fa poo poo!!
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 26, 2007 5:54:37 GMT 3
damn you people are slow. i got the book saturday morning and finished it sunday night. ;D
i'm just glad it's over. i just could no longer bear with the shame of reading yet another HP book. lol
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 26, 2007 6:34:54 GMT 3
Well Fishy it's nice to know you have nothing better to do than read a Potter book Some of us got work to go to, ya know. I am wrestling the book from Mr. QC. We should have bought two, now neither is getting any quality reading! LOL |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 26, 2007 7:28:17 GMT 3
I'm not afraid to admit that I put my social life on hiatus till I finished the book. In fact I even contemplated skipping work to stay home and finish it. Instead I decided to just take the book to work and read right under the boss's nose ^_^
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Post by unanimous on Jul 26, 2007 17:21:37 GMT 3
i wanna kno who died. i dont wanna emotionally invest on anyone for them just to die some chapters later!
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 26, 2007 19:52:09 GMT 3
no one important. tonks, lupin, snape, and one of the weasley twins (fred i think).
oh and voldie of course
ooh ooh ooh and harry. how did i forget that?!
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Post by eve on Jul 26, 2007 20:21:10 GMT 3
ooh ooh ooh and harry. how did i forget that?! harry dies and then comes back again - I read that in some spoiler ... Have to get my copy from virgin this weekend. |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 26, 2007 23:07:54 GMT 3
I was bitterly disappointed by the ending. Hollywood. Pure Hollywood.
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Post by Sever on Jul 27, 2007 3:43:50 GMT 3
I'm surprised. I did not wait you guys read it  Oh, now I even feel ashamed. I did not read it... & not going & by the way, Joe is right - it's Gary, not with H. Just to add 2nd "R", but that's not so important ;D |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 27, 2007 8:35:52 GMT 3
I was bitterly disappointed by the ending. Hollywood. Pure Hollywood. i liked it. the ending was a bit sudden, and i did expect more main characters to die, but definitely no complaints on my part. I'm just glad Harry, Ron, & Hermione survived. |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 27, 2007 18:30:18 GMT 3
Nah I didn't like the last 3 books that much. And I went to see the movie today - I was even more disappointed than I was by the book!! Nobody who hasn't read the book wouldn't be able to figure out what's going on.
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 28, 2007 10:49:45 GMT 3
it's a 1000-page book crammed into a 2.5-hour movie. I think they've done great with what they had.
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 28, 2007 15:55:12 GMT 3
THe only good thing about watching that movie was that we splashed out on Gold Star and had awesome chairs, service, blankets and Maltesers so I guess what the movie lacked, it was compensated in full by Gold Star!
;D
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Post by eve on Jul 28, 2007 19:30:31 GMT 3
Me just returned from the movie and me liked it ... but I think it is a bit confusing for those who havent read the book.... Im trying to find my wand and try a few spells and curses  Tomm - Virgin and the book !!!! |
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Post by Bink Brancer on Jul 29, 2007 12:09:44 GMT 3
I'm surprised. I did not wait you guys read it Oh, now I even feel ashamed. I did not read it... & not going & by the way, Joe is right - it's Gary, not with H. Just to add 2nd "R", but that's not so important ;D Sever: But isn't "X" pronounced as a "H" sound? I never quite understood that. |
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 29, 2007 14:54:31 GMT 3
Yup Joe, in Russian the letter "X" is pronounced as "KH".
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Post by Killerbee on Jul 29, 2007 18:20:04 GMT 3
As in XXXXtooey
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 29, 2007 20:17:40 GMT 3
Have people on QBB finished reading Deathly Hallows yet? Is it safe to put up spoilers already? So, where are the spoilers, Joe? |
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Post by Bink Brancer on Jul 30, 2007 8:50:37 GMT 3
Have people on QBB finished reading Deathly Hallows yet? Is it safe to put up spoilers already? So, where are the spoilers, Joe? Since you asked for it, here are some spoilers: - Hermione discovers that she actually fancies Cho Chang to Ron.
- Neville Longbottom reveals that he is the green powa lane-ja.
- In the final battle, Voldemort is killed by a napalm bomb dropped from an F-18. Flown by John McClane.
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Post by eve on Jul 30, 2007 10:07:54 GMT 3
Some spoilers this is !!!!
;D
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Post by Qatarcat on Jul 30, 2007 14:58:30 GMT 3
I KNEW it! I read the wrong book! Mine was boring!
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Post by unanimous on Jul 30, 2007 23:55:38 GMT 3
someone in IRC had enough time in his hands and wrote pages of harry potter, substituting the word "wand" with "wang" and i tell you that harry potter is not suitable for kids!lol!
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