[WikiEN-l] Conventions and movie vs. film

[james duffy]

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.

_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* 
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus