Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is... Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:31:44 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 18:31:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3e329fac6aaef58802dadbc33bab38c4"; logging-data="2828876"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182yD2/JW6XhDazKI0Rb3BK" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ReWUjHlFDpFNj0O2AzuoHUjgti8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4222 On 6/8/2024 8:14 AM, Xocyll wrote: > JAB 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 looked up from reading the entrails of the porn >>>>> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say: >>>>> >>>>>> On 29/05/2024 08:52, Xocyll wrote: >>>>>>> Never heard it called a mat before, always a mouse pad here in Canada. >>>>>> >>>>>> I did check and it seems to be another British vs American English. >>>>> >>>>> Canada usually follows British rules though. >>>>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> Re: "why".  Possibly because the US is the 800 pound gorilla sitting >>> right next to Canada?  ;) >>> >> >> 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've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.