Harry Potter and the Muggle Linguist. Part 2

In my quest to widen the vocabulary of my artificial language, I've been translating pieces of various books. Lately it's been a thorough job of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (the version which I own). Right now I'm working on the part when Harry visits Hagrid's hut for the first time. Outside it sits a crossbow, and deciding how to translate crossbow is one of the interesting problems of linguistics. ( Read more... )