Re: Out of place
- From: "Skitt" <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:07:16 -0700
tony cooper wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:28:13 -0400, Frances Kemmish
<fkemmish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been reading a novel by Elizabeth George, called "What CameI've read some of her books, and also noticed discrepancies in
Before He Shot Her". It is set in London among poor mixed-race
teenagers.
terminology and descriptions. They have to be pretty blatant for an
American to notice them. I probably don't notice as many as you do,
though.
I am finding it difficult to keep reading because of the number of
errors she makes in writing about a British situation with American
assumptions. As an example, she refers to someone stamping down on an
emergency brake, where most cars in Britain would have a hand-brake.
See, I wouldn't notice that. I've driven American cars with
hand-brakes that you pull, and noticed English drivers pulling
hand-brakes in movies, but I wouldn't know that all cars in the UK
still use hand-brakes. The pull-type hand-brake is seen mostly on
cars with stick shift, and I haven't driven a stick for quite some
time. I've owned them, though.
There's pull-type hand brakes on both of our cars (Civic and 328i), and neither of them has a stick-shift.
--
Skitt (AmE)
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