[HPFGU-OTChatter] Curse Versus Kill etc. (was Re: Harry Potter and God - GOF)

[Nightbreed]

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Magpie:
It's also, I think, just a matter of how marketing works. Bloomsbury only
owns the rights in the UK, and JKR sold foreign rites in many different
countries that are then published by different publishers. What you're
objecting to is probably changes in the language--that's where kids would
learn. Though it would also just be a case of putting the book into the
standard copy style of the US publisher. Iow, changing the style of
punctuation along with putting out their own edition re: book design and
font styles and all that.

-m



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They specifically "Americanized" the first books fearing the audience
wouldn't "get" the English phrases, it specifically started with the term
"philosophers stone" which, you know, us stupid Americans would never
understand! By the 4th book they were popular they stopped the heavy-handed
editing, I own and have read both versions and the last 3 books have very
few changes. My favorite is the British version, I think it's OOP or HPB,
Fred and George say they "keep their peckers up" in the U.S. it's "noses." 

md