je suis voldemort

plus: more from the harry potter universe ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [logo]( [Voldemort Makes Much More Sense As A Frenchman]( By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • February 1, 2022 [02012022](www.cracked.com/article_32513_voldemort-makes-much-more-sense-as-a-frenchman.html?newsletter-cat=movies-tv?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=01022022) It's supervillain week at Cracked! Join the dark side, we have cookies. The Harry Potter series starts out with an evil guy named Voldemort, and then the second book introduces a kid named Tom Riddle. The two are the same person: Tom Marvolo Riddle rearranged the letters in his name to spell "I Am Lord Voldemort" and so created the alias he'd use as an adult. That's how the books played out in English, anyway. Translators had to change the name of the kid to make the anagram work in other languages. In Danish, they made the kid Jomeo G. Detlev Jr. Rearrange the letters, and you get "Jeg Er Voldemort," or "I am Voldemort" in Danish. In Swedish, they made the kid Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder, and the anagram "Ego sum Lord Voldemort," which means "I am Lord Voldemort"—not in Swedish, but in Latin. In Mandarin, they said to hell with it, chose names that weren't anagrams, and just added a footnote to explain that it all made sense in the original English. For the French translation, they named the kid Tom Elvis Jedusor, and the anagram is "Je suis Voldemort." This works out well because Elvis is a real name. In that sense, it works a lot better than in English, where J.K. Rowling very obviously created the made-up name Marvolo by starting with the anagram and working backwards. Of course, Jedusor isn't a real name (the translator made it up by starting with the anagram and working backwards), but the trick feels less obvious with the surname because the book introduces the kid's surname hundreds of pages of before revealing the anagram and repeats it so many times. Even otherwise, the name Voldemort works very well in French. The name is French for "flight of death," so it's a fitting title for a guy to assume when he has a gang of minions called Death Eaters. Also, if you speak French, you know the name rhymes with Dumbledore, which is appropriate. Some French speakers, after reading the French version, were curious to learn what the name was in the original English text ... and were baffled to learn that it's simply "Voldemort," which means nothing in English. For Volde-more, check out: - [Three Ways Supervillains Are Dumber Now [VIDEO]]( - [The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter']( - [Voldemort Acts In A Totally Non-Voldemort-ish Way At The Worst Possible Moment]( - [6 Intriguing Theories That Answer Longtime Character Questions]( Top image: Warner Bros. [Daily Digest]( [Sony just acquired Bungie, Microsoft's bitterest ex]( [By Tiago Svn / February 01st, 2022]( [15 Real Homeopathic Medicines (Wild Even by Homeopathy Standards)]( [By Andres Diplotti / February 01st, 2022]( [13 Facts To Make Us That Much Better At Breaking The Ice]( [By Andrea Meno / February 01st, 2022]( [4 Comedy Lessons We Learned From 90s Kids Shows]( [By Matt Solomon / February 01st, 2022]( ['Sable' Is Not A Good Game (And It's Okay To Admit That)]( [By Stephen Buckley / January 31st, 2022]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](