Tastes Like Lead

magicaldeductions:

(I’m no expert. Corrections welcome.)

/saijaχasaʃi || saijaχasijɛθ/

Clip of this scene: on YouTube

/xɛʃ χa sa/

/ʃjaχs aŋgaʈas sɛliθɨin/

/saθai hɛθɛs/

Nagini: /χalχ sakaθ aχa/
Harry: /sanaχ/
Nagini: /sɛlɛtɛs/

/saija χasaθ alasajaʃɛ/

/sɛs lɛθjo loçin || haʃɛʃ nana…

Wow. I’m completely impressed with this. I’ve done transcription before and it’s painful, painstaking work. 

I remember at the beginning of August I watched the films again and wondered whether Parseltongue was a legitimate conlang, or just a bunch of sibilants and coronals strung together. I was also very drunk at the time.

Some advice: When creating a Harry Potter drinking game, do not make a rule stating that you have to take a shot when “Voldemort” is spoken or a house receives points. You will not make it past Sorceror’s Stone.

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    majoring in linguistics would be much more fun if parseltongue was part of syllabus
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    They screwed it up in the DH2 and made it so any valid Parseltongue phrase would open the Chamber, which wasn’t how it...
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    What I want to know is, even if Harry talks in his sleep, how did Ron know which phrase(s) would open the Chamber? Or...
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    This is everything that
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    Wow. I’m completely impressed with this. I’ve done transcription before and it’s painful, painstaking work. I remember...
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    #sesquipedalian loquaciousness
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    Forget about Organic Chemistry, I’m learning how...speak Parseltounge tonight! :)
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    SO GEEKY, I LOVE IT! if parseltounge were a written language, what kind...a script would...
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    ^ is an awesome tumblr by an awesome person u_u
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    life: when I’m trying to put off reading psycholinguistics papers,...end up reading in IPA
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