[HPforGrownups] Re: Malfoy on the second floor
Robert A. Rosenberg
rarpsl at optonline.net
Tue Jul 15 22:50:48 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 70660
At 18:30 +0000 on 07/15/2003, mtwelovett wrote about [HPforGrownups]
Re: Malfoy on the second floor:
>In some if not all of Europe, what we Americans call the First Floor
>is the Ground Floor, and the first floor up a flight of stairs, is
>called the First Floor where as in America we call it the Second
>Floor. So there could be some confusion there if that was considered
>in the "translation" into "American English" and it may have been a
>detail that was overlooked someplace so it may be inconsistant. How do
>the references compare to the British Editions?
Note that the American Edition versions of OotP get this right. Check
out the Location Chart of the Hospital. Where there is a Ground Floor
and a First Floor.
--
Bob Rosenberg
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