[WikiEN-l] Movie v. Film

[james duffy]

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>John Knouse wrote:
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>>Whoa, here's a radical solution: use the form "Jackass
>>(movie/film)".  There.  Doesn't that cover it?
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>Or "(film/movie)", so as to forestall charges of American
>cultural imperialism because "movie" comes first. :-)
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>Or, use "(movie/film)" and "(film/movie)" as a subtle
>method of differentiating the European-preferred from
>the American-preferred works, heh-heh.

Nice one, Stan. BTW sorry if offence was caused. It was not intended. To be 
honest, I never thought it important to use smileys. I am only back on the 
net since August and just never got 'into' using smileys. But please do 
realise I have a habit of being ironic and sarcastic and take my comments in 
that light.

And in case some people think it, I do NOT dislike America. Far from it. I 
admire so many things about America - heck, my favourite TV shows are 
Fraser, The West Wing and Six Feed Under, which all 'do' irony. But many 
people outside the US do have a problem with the attitude (perhaps an 
unintended attitude) of 'we know best' with any criticism of anything to do 
with the US as being 'anti-american'. The Bush administration has REALLY 
rubbed non-Americans the wrong way in a whole range of areas, and that has 
impacted on attitudes worldwide towards the US. Wiki does have a tendency 
(understandably, given that most of its initial members were American) to 
have an american-orientation in many areas. Lists of TV shows that were hits 
are exclusively American. An article on First Ladies was really about US 
first ladies until I renamed it to clarify that fact. (Those who doing the 
page - and did great work - never considered the fact that such a term might 
be used outside the US) American linguistic styles like saying 'city name, 
country' are prevalent even though that format is not widely used outside 
the US. American terms 'movie, automobile' etc are used, even if english 
language speakers outside the US don't use the terms and see them as 
exclusively American terms.

On the movie vs film issue, I like the suggestion of (movie/film) or 
(film/movie). Perhaps the solution as to which one comes first can be solved 
simply by the rule - put them alphabetically.

In any case, wikilove (totally non sarcastically and non ironically, BTW 
Danny!) :-)

JT

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