Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
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But yeah, I’m very glad to see the kind of protests that were going on all over the place, not just the cities you’d expect!
Many protests in Europe attract much larger percentages of their population.
Serbia had the same pop as greater DC (6.5m), but attracted 3x as many people to recent protests (325k vs 100k).
No matter how much something is 'mericanised it only works in its original setting and language.
I saw the movie.
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Example:
"Standing on the unknown street, he knew it was no longer London, lacking the command of 'Look Right'"
Also, HHGG is awesome.
jfc 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Long time ago I was beating him in Scrabble, and for reasons only the universe knows it was with the term „bulldozer“.
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Also, a lot of things can be inferred from context by anyone with average reading comprehension.
I mean who could handle a story about boldly going where no one, but The Doctor, has gone before?!
That'd never fly. 😏
Well...
Bits of him are... Unfortunately, not the important bits.
The only thing that actually confused me was "you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's." It was a long time before I knew what that meant.
Without the British touch it'd no longer what it was, genuine.
Don't trumple on books!!!!
"It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors."
"English inside, not American"
Other similar stupidities, too, like Star Trek's Picard being forced to pronounce route as rout when he's actually meant to be French
I get that CV is Latin but so is etc and CV has one less syllable, saving you time
Program I associate with computing though I've done programming for many years so might be biased/brainwashed 😉
The Philosopher's stone is a long standing concept that predates her work by centuries. The Sorcerer's Stone is americanised nonsense.
The world should stop pandering to American ignorance.
They're not familiar with most of the places in the book
The Americans who think the world revolves around them annoy the crap out of me.
It's not always about yooooou
I miss Douglas a lot, he is so necessary in these years...
No such thing as 'British terminology', it's English.
How much times the Universe was replaced by something more bizarre til then?
An American Arthur Dent having a drink at Applebees with his friend Ford from Newark makes me want to retch.
Americans can make assumptions about the pub and the pound and Basingstoke Roundabout.
But Ford Prefect? Absolutely flew over every American head so much that we didn't realize it was a joke at all.
I just don't get why youse fullas find this so difficult, ae.
Made my day
Quintessential Douglas Adams ❤️
OTP vp
Part of my enjoyment was the quirky way brits did things. It was mind opening and refreshing to see alternative POVs.
I'd rather they left some of the french in.
Alt text!! 🥰
There are deer crossings, and moose crossings, and many other animal crossings. One might assume a zebra crossing is a place where zebras cross a road, which 100% changes the punchline.
Oh, bopAd, if only you knew...
Of course, that's actually the St. Lawrence watershed. Heaven forbid they acknowledged the existence of Canada.
Shop Amazon. It’s creeping in over here.
Eat Fresh what? as my old English teacher always said.
“That was absolute brilliant”.
Spring you bells.
Give the Vimes role to Jason Isaacs and just make Thud.
He does not translate well to the screen tho - it's our working class memory
You have to humanise him. To see his downs in order to see what he becomes. Mike Leigh should make a Vimes movie. His rage at the system being run by Etonian style bastards takes a while to get through.
omg!
“Yeah, I like the girl meets boy element, that’s cool, but they die at the end? And what kind of name is Romeo even?”
Even though it turned out to be probably the worst film ever made and I’m glad he never saw it.
Or Crisps?
Chatting with door to door salesman today (I don't get out much) and he went off all inspired with a "reading" list on the fight for democracy in USA 🙂
"If Osama Bin Laden wanted to hit America hard,he should have carpet bombed them with a weapon they would never be able to understand-World geography examination papers, shops that don't have the word "barn" in their name, and the metaphysical concept of shame"
From my memory
From Douglas Adams quotes.
Can't help feeling that Douglas Adams would have utterly loathed everything about Muskovite and his trumpery purchase.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250226-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-the-quirky-radio-show-that-became-a-phenomenon
My granddaughter watches un-Americanized peppa pig and bluey sometimes she uses the fun words like they do🤣🤣
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