Sunday, February 5, 2012

Why in British Movies, do they now talk American?

In a load of British movies, they are now talking American English, Why, if they鈥檙e meant to be British? For example: James Bond 鈥楥ell Phone鈥?%26amp; Jonny ENGLISH 鈥榚levator鈥? I have nothing against the American wording but, surely Americans can understand the British alternatives to these words? I can understand that they may want to optimize it for the American audience, but doesn鈥檛 it ruin the fact that the person saying it, is meant to be British?Why in British Movies, do they now talk American?I find that odd sometimes too. We know the alternative words used by the British for the most part, so I'm not sure why they do that.Why in British Movies, do they now talk American?No, Americans don't understand British words and terms, they're too ignorant to accept it.



Us Brits however, have learned to live with American words being peppered into our language and we understand them because we're not narrow minded.



Whenever I ask questions on Yahoo Answers, I use American English, because I know the British don't complain...but if I used proper English, the American contingent would pick on it.Why in British Movies, do they now talk American?It's the usual American jingoism. If the film is going to do well in the US it has to use common American slang and wording. It's just commercial, but slowly American "English" is spoiling the language.Why in British Movies, do they now talk American?
I don't really notice these things, you pay far too much attention!



It all depends who the director and producer is, if its an American director/producer then there is more likely to be American words used.



Plus I'm Scottish and use the word elevator a lot and I've never ever been to America.
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