Hi Dark, That's precisely my point. That's why I personally purchased the versions published by Bloomsberry. The characters are from England, the books takes place in England, and the American copies have been edited to be more Americanized. I found it slightly odd myself, and I'm not even from the U.K. Lol!
Anyway, to bring this back on topic with gaming the odd thing is you see this in the Harry Potter games as well. If you fire up Philosopher’s Stone for the PC it will ask you what language you want the characters to speak in. They have American English, British English, German, Spanish, etc. I can certainly understand having options for foreign languages like French, German, and Spanish but having American acters doing Harry Potter, Hermione, and Ron, etc is weird. Why didn't they just stick with the U.K. acters for the English cutscenes? On 3/5/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > I would find that absolutely insane, english characters using American > terms, ---- heck when something from America comes out over here we don't > have it edited to use the British terms for things at all, in fact I > remember being quite litle when my dad explained to me that American words > for clothing such as pants and shorts didn't mean the same thing as over > here. > > I wonder what they did about the very english slang such as git as an insult > or Loo for toilet which both come up in the books. > > The one odd thing is jk does use the term "moaning mertle's bathroom" on > occasion even in the original uk edition, she alternates betwene this and > calling it a toilet as would be usual over here. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
