NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 June 2010 06:34:19PM 0 points [-]

At this point, the precision seems to just be about duration of vowels. I don't know how Harry chose that test.

Afaik, spells don't have to be written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Comment author: LucasSloan 13 June 2010 06:50:41PM *  1 point [-]

He was testing 16 different variants. The vowel duration was only the test we saw in full.