"Don't know if she was teasing me, but an
American acquaintance once told me that any British films/TV programmes which
actually do make it across the Atlantic tend to be dubbed with American voices
because they might not be understood otherwise!"
saith Sarah,
I for one believe every word of that Sarah, I know too many
Americans, lovely people all, to disbelieve what you were told, even one
in TV where they do dub, and some films too have a slightly varying
dialogue for the Characters to use for the "Other side of the Pond", you
are SO not being teased, it is true, they love us, but we sound
differently.
Me, I have difficulty in the extreme for my speech is so
old-fashioned to my many English acquaintances as to my American
Buddies
Bless
Patricia
Who speaks both English and American You have to love
them
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:06
PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] Re: A
dialect with army and navy...
Hello Llama Nom,
Not sure if I'm going rather off topic here,
but I would say the differences between American and British English
cover not only spelling and pronunciation but vocabulary, use of
prepositions, past tense forms of some strong verbs, expressions or idioms,
and sentence structure. I did an essay at uni many years ago in which
I analysed newspaper articles from British and American papers and I was
stunned by the extent of the linguistic differences.
Don't know if she was teasing me, but an
American acquaintance once told me that any British films/TV programmes
which actually do make it across the Atlantic tend to be dubbed with
American voices because they might not be understood otherwise!
Cheers,
Sarah.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:52
AM
Subject: [norse_course] Re: A dialect
with army and navy...
> but they actually achieved to change
their English
> language into a new standard, endowed not only with
a different
pronunciation,
> but also with a different
spelling, though not very remarkable
(think of -ize
> instead
of -ise, "harbor" instead of "harbour").
I get the impression
that the spelling -ize was the more normal one
in Britain even in the
early 20th century. Not sure when or why -
ise took over, but I
think it existed as an acceptable alternative
before becoming
general. Maybe it was a case of British spelling
authorities
wanting to assert their independence of the global power
after
WW2? But I don't really know. The invention of
wordprocessers has further ossified these niggly
differences.
Llama Nom
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