On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:28:15 +0000 Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > Very interesting. And rather sad that editors think the > > average Amermican reader too dim-witted to figure out > > (in context, even) that a "car park" is a "parking lot" > > and a "dustbin" is a "trash can." > > > They know that the average American could work it out. > They also know that the average American doesn't like to > do anything remotely like hard thinking, hence they make > these changes so the books don't read like "foreign > literature".
I'll pass on the snobbery. The real reason is that it was an expensively promoted book. Customizing it for an American audience was a way to suck money out of that flow into the pockets of the American publisher. In order to justify that expense, they have to have something to show for their efforts. Or if you want to put it another way, if you pay somebody to fiddle with the prose, fiddle they will. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
