[WikiEN-l] Conventions and movie vs. film

[Zoe]

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 at 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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