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Originally Posted by Toby
ecchi, you're not only a pedantic asswipe, but you're also full of shit.
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Toby you may want to take a look at the link tickler posted. You will see that AVN use "Internet" instead of "internet". You want to say are full of shit too? Or maybe you would be better looking it all up in a dictionary.
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Originally Posted by emmanuelle
Did Lynne Truss rewrite her book for each geographic audience?
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I only quoted her book title to point out I was about to make a linguistic point. However most books written in English but outside America get 'translated' before being published in America. Mostly this is just so that the book is in a language Americans feel 'comfortable' with. But occasionally words have different meanings (vest for example) and sometimes American and English words differences can be extreme. For example the English word for a child's eraser is 'rubber', imagine an English kid walking into a general store in America wanting six erasers and asking for "a packet of six rubbers". Also, 'fanny' means 'cunt' in England. So if you are ever on holiday in England and get a severe pain in your ass, don't tell the English doctor that you have a pain in your fanny and then wonder why he refers you to a gynaecologist (and if you are male.....).
Getting back to Lynne Truss, did you know that "Eats Shoots And Leaves" sold tremendously all over the English speaking world, except in America, where it sold badly. I think Toby just demonstrated what this leads to.
