Re: Complete list of UK/US Differences for HBP

Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen <bffpds@raxacoricofallapatoria> wrote:
> Mark Evans wrote:
>
>> Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen wrote:
>
>>> it's remade for American television, usually ruining it by bowdlerising
>>> everything that made the show so funny in the first place.
>
>> This hasn't always been the case, some British sitcoms have made it into
>> the US without being altered/remade.
>
> Such as? On ABC/CBS/NBC?

IIRC one of these did show "Benny Hill". In a "Graveyard Slot", since
sex tends to be considered far more disturbing than violence on US TV.
>
>
>>> That's rubbish; our children manage American ~and~ Australian dialects
>
>> Similarly Australians cope fine with British and American dialects.
>> Canadians don't appear to have a problem with a mixture of American,
>> Australian and British.
>
> Exactly, American children would benefit from being given the chance.

Not just the children, by all signs.

>>> very easily since they're exposed to them without censorship; while as
>>> others have pointed out, children in countries worldwide read HP books
>>> in English as a foreign language, rather than wait for translations.
>
>> There's also a factor of wanting to read something in the original
>> language, rather than a translated version.
>
> Of course; I'd hate to read an Anglicised version of Raymond Chandler.

Or Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, John
Steinbeck, etc.
.

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