Terry Hancock wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:58:10 +0000 > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Terry Hancock wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:28:15 +0000 >>>Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>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. >>> >> >>I don't know what snobbery is involved: the same is true >>of the average English reader, but the book was written >>in English. > > > My apologies, then, I thought you were making a > nationalist remark. I'll agree that people in general > are lazy. ;-) > > Getting overly sensitive, I guess: Once your country goes > and violates international conventions and UN sanctions, > invades foreign countries who haven't attacked it, and > starts taking political prisoners, spies on > its own citizens, punishes dissent against the ruling party, > and starts torturing people, everybody thinks they have a > right to criticize you on every nitpicking little thing! > > I wish I was kidding about all of that. > So the only thing you (the USA) lack is the hundreds of years of experience at those activities that Britain has. Sometimes I wonder whose name governments *do* govern in.
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