tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post6991389182165774631..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Should You Address Prof. Snape with Respect?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-39242508341133667662007-08-02T09:24:00.000-05:002007-08-02T09:24:00.000-05:00Yes, but in the English edition, Harry rarely refe...Yes, but in the English edition, Harry rarely refers to Snape as Prof. Snape, something the adults in his life are constantly correcting him for. Harry has very little respect for Prof. Snape in the series and voices it in many different ways.Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-14784803977338531982007-08-01T08:23:00.000-05:002007-08-01T08:23:00.000-05:00I don't have my copy of the Japanese edition of th...I don't have my copy of the Japanese edition of the HP books with me, but I do know that the context of respect is <I>everything </I> when you address someone in Japanese. Hagrid, for instance, speaks of Dumbledore as 'Dumbledore-<I>sensei-sama</I>', which roughly translates to 'Highly Revered Professor Dumbledore' -- it's significantly more respectful than 'Dumbledore-<I>sensei</I>', which in itself is an honourific title. I don't think that Harry always uses the <I>sensei</I> title when speaking of Snape...and that, in itself, shows a serious lack of respect for an adult authority figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-41068628875443259802007-07-29T21:04:00.000-05:002007-07-29T21:04:00.000-05:00I agree that Dixit's observation about an author's...I agree that Dixit's observation about an author's first book doesn't hold water. I think Rowling's first is better than her others (so far) in some qualities of writing, but the characterizations and plotting are relatively simple, proportionate to the heroes'/readers' age. <BR/><BR/>It might be interesting to consider whether an author's first book always displays their strongest qualities (and perhaps abiding concerns), while in later books they develop other strengths or experiment.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-65794958383421975792007-07-29T17:26:00.000-05:002007-07-29T17:26:00.000-05:00I can't help but comment that I disagree with Dixi...I can't help but comment that I disagree with Dixit about an author using their best in their first book. Sometimes it takes an author time to fully develop his or her talent. Often the first book needs to be abandoned completely and it's a later work that is the quintessential work. Many great authors with a body of work produce their best in the middle somewhere. For example, Tolstoy's War and Peace was not his first book, nor Joyce's Ulysses or V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse. I think the most mature and best written work is often produced after some previous good but not best work. As for JK -- which of her books do you think were the best? I vote for Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and the final HP7. <BR/>Amy<BR/>www.wozabooks.comAmy at Woza Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08923794427157681446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-53026954978540616032007-07-29T13:27:00.000-05:002007-07-29T13:27:00.000-05:00Just as second person plural—I didn't phrase mysel...Just as second person plural—I didn't phrase myself well above. <BR/><BR/>We English speakers don't have a way to boil down respect into a pronoun, so we have to resort to add-ons like "you guys."J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-32022473745798202312007-07-29T13:21:00.000-05:002007-07-29T13:21:00.000-05:00Does SAE use y'all as second person plural or also...Does SAE use y'all as second person plural or also as second person singular formal (as in one of the several French usages)?Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com