Quote:("Against the world" is "contre le monde", "face au monde", or "contre tous", depending on how figurative one is being...)I didn't make it properly clear: when I put that "nom-de-guerre (against the world)," what I meant was that "against the world" was a continuation of the thought, not a translation of the French. In other words, it's a "name of war -- war against the world." Sorry. I thought it was a cool phrasing, but I guess it turned out more confusing than anything else.
Quote:Consider what "vol de morte" means in French - why would an ancestor, no matter how pretentious, have taken the name "death of flight"?"Flight of death" as opposed to "death of flight" is how Doug translated "Voldemort." But people have, historically, acquired some weird names. Why did Voldemort take that name? I'm just saying that Doug assumed the present Voldemort was the pretentious emo type, apparently without considering that he might be the descendant of a previous pretentious emo who originated it. We know he wasn't -- not for the name, anyway -- but Doug didn't check the possibility.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.