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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 0 points 3 months ago

Explain pls

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, based on the sortsa word association and stereotypes naming convention Rowling uses.

Ivor the Engine was a children's show that aired about the time she was a child, it had a Welsh character called Jones the Steam. One of the big stereotypes about the Welsh is that we're all thieves. So Jones the Steal.

Taffy ap Lleidr is a bit of a deeper pull. Taffy the Welshman is an English nursery rhyme about Welsh people that relies on the aforementioned stereotypes.

small excerpt

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief

Taffy came into my house, and stole a leg of beef

I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed

So I took my leg of beef, and hit him in the head

Sometimes in Rowling's work she just machine translates words and squashes them together. So in that spirit I jammed ap which is a preffix in Welsh names that means son of, with Lleidr which means burglar.