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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Rowling's Birthday #145642 07/31/05 01:40 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve OP Carpal Tunnel OP Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Author J.K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965. In recognition of the several words (e.g. muggle, squib, animagus, parseltongue, and sorting hat) which she has contributed to modern English, perhaps we ought send her a combination birthday/thank-you card. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rowling's Birthday #145643 07/31/05 01:56 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont nice idea, Steve. count me in. after reading the 6th book, I went back and started with the third and read them again. it was fun to read into things she wrote earlier, knowing where they were going. oh, and I've watched all three films several times, and eagerly await the fourth! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rowling's Birthday #145644 07/31/05 02:40 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Can someone please explain to me exactly what a philosopher's stone is? I'd always thought it was pretty much just a good-luck charm of some kind, but my book tells me that it may be much more than that. (No, not a Harry Potter book.) It also has an interesting word: alembic. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rowling's Birthday #145645 07/31/05 07:38 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 427 Spain Marianna addict Marianna addict Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 427 Spain That would be great, Padre. While I have not been really "caught" in her Harry Potter story, I do admire her skill in creating expressive, plausible new words for her magical world, and her character names are sometimes brilliant. For Jackie: J.K. Rowling has her "philosopher's stone" be a stone that gives its possessor immortality, as indeed this was one of its powers according to ancient alchemy, but I don't remember whether she also accounts for its other assumed major power, that of turning any metal into gold... Now just how does a list like ours go about sending a combination card? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rowling's Birthday #145646 07/31/05 12:45 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve OP Carpal Tunnel OP Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA By sending a card in care of: Christopher Little Literary Agency Eel Brook Studios 125 Moore Park Road London SW6 4PS United Kingdom Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rowling's Birthday #145647 07/31/05 04:06 PM Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois A amnow journeyman amnow journeyman A Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois For a single person to have 'turned on' youth to reading, she deserves much more than a card! Oh, yeah...she's received much more... and, from what I've heard, been generous and grateful with her rewards! If elections were held for Queen today, I think she'd run away with the job! >^--^< Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter The Philosphers Stone #145648 07/31/05 06:34 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve OP Carpal Tunnel OP Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA In alchemy, the Philosophers Stone was originally thought to be a chemical which had the power to turn base metals into gold. Over time, it grew to have other powers, as well, such as the cure of illness and the prolongation of life. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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