[WikiEN-l] The "Young and Innocent" page

[Zoe]

Films are what auteurs make.

Zoe

--- Jason Williams <jason at jasonandali.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:50:58PM +0100, Jason
> Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 02:44:44PM +0200, K
> Forstner wrote:
> > > The reason is that Hitchcock's movie of the same
> name (which I'm going to
> > > rename "movie" instead of "film")
> > 
> > Erm. Why?
> 
> Okay, so there's a naming convention on this at 
> 
> 
>
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(movies)
> 
> Why is it so? Why is the principle that American and
> British English
> have equal status abandoned here? Why is the ugly
> "movie" explicitly
> preferred over the perfectly good "film"?
> 
> 
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