Terry Hancock wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:28:15 +0000 > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>Very interesting. And rather sad that editors think the >>>average Amermican reader too dim-witted to figure out >>>(in context, even) that a "car park" is a "parking lot" >>>and a "dustbin" is a "trash can." >>> >> >>They know that the average American could work it out. >>They also know that the average American doesn't like to >>do anything remotely like hard thinking, hence they make >>these changes so the books don't read like "foreign >>literature". > > > I'll pass on the snobbery. > I don't know what snobbery is involved: the same is true of the average English reader, but the book was written in English.
> The real reason is that it was an expensively promoted > book. Customizing it for an American audience was a way to > suck money out of that flow into the pockets of the > American publisher. In order to justify that expense, they > have to have something to show for their efforts. > > Or if you want to put it another way, if you pay somebody > to fiddle with the prose, fiddle they will. > If you say so. Stranger things have happened. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list