Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On 6/8/2024 8:14 AM, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
 

On 01/06/2024 18:19, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 6/1/2024 1:23 AM, JAB wrote:

On 31/05/2024 19:29, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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On 29/05/2024 08:52, Xocyll wrote:

Never heard it called a mat before, always a mouse pad here in Canada.

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I did check and it seems to be another British vs American English.

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Canada usually follows British rules though.
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Don't know Canadian English so not sure but I've always presumed that
in terms of grammar and spelling it's more akin to British English but
for actual terms used I also assumed (not sure why) it would have more
in common with what's used in the US.
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Re: "why".  Possibly because the US is the 800 pound gorilla sitting
right next to Canada?  ;)
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So how much influence does US culture have on Canada as in the UK it's
pretty much limited to music and films*. Saying that I have noticed more
and more references to a TV season instead of a TV series.

 
Yeah in NA it's the various seasons of a TV series, whereas in Britain
it's various series of a TV show.
 
Of course in Britain, they can run a "series" (year) of a show, take a
year or two off, then bring it back for the next series.
In NA that pretty much never happens - it's continuous start to finish,
then it's truly finished.
 
Season one and cancelled, there is never a season 2.
Some series were officially cancelled, but fans got them reinstated
before they actually the actually finished filming the current season or
the actors moved on to other projects, but that's a whole nother thing.
 
Brit series tend to be shorter too, often only 4-6 episodes.   VS 10-13
fairly standard now in NA, and the older ones that were 22-26
episodes/season.
 
IE Primeval went 6/7/10/7/6 eps in  2007/8/9/11/11
 
 

*Of course we are more than happen to export our own actors as pretend
Americans and if you need someone to play the bad guy, well we've got it
covered.

 
As referenced when Hugh Laurie of House MD fame surprised people with
his spot on "English Accent" cause they had no idea he was English.
 
The number of Brits and Aus/NZ actors who can do perfect American
accents is surprising.
 
The number of American actors who can do perfect Brit/Aus/NZ accents is
microscopic.
 

Gorilla don't need to learn how to grunt funny.  :D

I wouldn't put it that way exactly, it's more the way actors get paid.

Aus actors get zero residuals for instance, a popular show that has
reruns nets them nothing at all, it all goes to the studio.

NZ, I don't know, but I suspect it's similar, and with such a small
population, shows get 1960's Dr Who budgets, so most Americans wouldn't
work for that.   It does inspire a lot of creativity in the storytelling
though.   When you don't have the budget for flashy effects, you'd
better have a good story.



And for a last thought:  

British King Kong on top of the Empire State Building, swatting at
planes and declaiming "Bloody Colonials!"  (Top hat and Monocle, Mr
Peanut/Mr Monopoly style, optional.)

Xocyll