British V American

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 101804

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wisteria053" <mpvillas at y...> 
wrote:
> Alla "dumbledore11214" wrote:
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> I bought the British version of PoA and really did not feel that 
> different at all.
> 
> "Jason" wrote:
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> I havent read any of the British versions of the books 
> but they can't be THAT different, can they? We Americans have 
become 
> accustomed to many phrases and Britishisms by now anyway. 
> snip
> 
> 
> As an American living in London these past 15 years, I understood 
> that the first book had many more amendments than the later ones.  
I 
> think the books are British, so leave them that way.  
> 
> "wisteria053"

Susan now:
I totally agree with you, Wisteria.  If they're British, then so be 
it.  I've had to read (English Major) lots and lots of old stuff, and 
as a MA student, the stuff just kept getting older and weirder, but I 
was supposed to nonetheless figure out what's going on (my two best 
examples are Tristram Shandy and Swift's "A Modest Proposal" though I 
could produce plenty more).  Point being, person that I am, I found 
it really interesting.  Then when I started toying with fanfic, being 
an American, and wanting to remain faithful to JKR's stories and 
characters, I looked up detailed maps of London, the UK in general, 
Eng-Am dictionaries (including slang)...all kinds of stuff that made 
reading/writing HP stuff even more fun.  

And OT I know, though only slightly, but I have an Xbox and play live 
(well, not live, but you know...)golf with people from all over the 
place, including the UK.  Even that's more fun, just because I now 
know what they mean when people say "All right," or "I'm bloody 
pissed."  

Further, I remember watching Bugs Bunny as a kid, and constantly 
having to go ask my dad to tell me what the heck a dance card is, 
etc., etc.  Made the cartoons even more fun, but that's just me ;-)

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

http://english2american.com/index.html#index

Susan (who hopes these links work)