Hi Ben, Yes, I know. You can blame the naming issue on Scholastic. For reasons no one will ever understand, including J. K. Rowling herself, Scholastic insisted that the name be changed for the U.S. market even though it was being marketed in the U.K. by Bloomsberry as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. As you might have guessed the movies, games, toys, etc followed the patern. In the U.S. it was named one thing and in the U.K. another. Its not something we can do anything about, and I've gotten use to calling it by both names.
At any rate you might be surprised I have a complete copy of the Harry Potter books published by Bloomsberry instead of Scholastic for that very reason. Scholastic basically took the books, heavily edited them, and made it easier to follow by an American audience by changing the names of things when and where necessary. I didn't really like it, because they changed the story a little too much in my opinion. For example, in Chamber of Secrets when discussing the Ford Anglia the U.K. version uses English names for things like the boot and bonnet of the car. In the American release they use trunk and hood instead. Instead of using toilet they inserted the word bath room. These are relatively miner changes, but I personally like reading it exactly as J. K. Rowling wrote it instead of reading it second hand after some American editor got done changing this and that to fit their idea of how the book should read. So, yeah, I agree if you read the U.K. versionand then the U.S. version it seams quite strange to see how much difference there is over all. Cheers! On 3/5/11, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way tom. Not meaning to be picky... but in the uk, its philosopher's > stone - it just, no offence meant, seemed a bit weird you calling it by that > name... but that's just me. Don't take it personally. > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
