You don't see the irony of saying that because Americans use the word, we aren't allowed to us it on Wikipedia? That because it's an Americanims, it's de facto wrong? Sounds like anti-American arrogance, to me. This is really, really, really, getting old. Fine, you don't want Americopedia. What about anti-Americopedia? Why don't you go off to your little corner of Europe and start your own?
Zoe
--- james duffy jtdirl@hotmail.com wrote:
Chill out, Stan. I was what is known in Ireland as 'taking the piss', a bit of ironic mockery. (Oh God, you are not one of these boring people who don't 'do' irony and are to a sense of humour what George W. Bush is to linguistic dexterity?)
The point I was making is that it is American arrogance in the extreme to think - ' we use the word 'movie' therefore wikipedia must use the word 'movie' and any references to the word film we will replace with the 'right' (ie American) word'. Some people use movie, some use film, as with British English versus American English, leave it in whatever language the original author used. Some time ago, a European wikian wrote about a film made in Europe that because of legal problems never got a release in the US. It never have been released there, but still someone tried to call it a (movie) not a (film) until a group of bored Europeans, inspired by GWB, decided to wage their own war for the liberation of the word 'film', collectively telling the annoying renamer to shag off and Americanise something else. And he reacted to their defence of a non-US title the way George W. reacts to anything french these days. He hit the roof with a stream of 'how bloody dare you . . . ' type responses.
Put bluntly, Stan, this is wikipedia, not americopedia. If you want respect from non-Americans, show their language and spellings some respect. And get a sense of humour.
JT.
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