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[doyle]

Checking out a post on hp_essays about Britpicking - because some of the Harry Potter fic I was reading last night was fantastic but had an Americanism every couple of paragraphs1, and dumpsters and diapers2 and candy stores in a British setting just bring me to a screeching halt - and am I understanding the comments right? The books were translated into American English? :boggles: I knew the title of Philosopher's Stone was changed but assumed the text had been left alone. That just seems odd.

1: Yep, aware of the irony in this since I'm plenty guilty of sticking Briticisms into Buffy fic.

2. Uh, the nappies/diapers were on a baby, they weren't the kind for grown-ups.

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[invaderwitch.livejournal.com]

Read the American versions, and had no idea they had been changed from the original versions until today (excepting, of course, the tilte of Sorcerer's Stone). I'm tempted now to look into the originals, but is it really that big a difference? Meaning, is there stuff I am missing out on?
At least they didn't have American accents in the movies, but that would probably have pushed it too far...
Not that they haven't done it to tons of great anime.
^_^

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

There's a list here (http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/potter.html) of what was changed. Mostly just single words, but enough to convince me I'd never be able to read the American editions without wincing on every page *g*

[invaderwitch.livejournal.com]

I understand totally. I'm anal about the American versions of anime and manga in completely the same way. Never really occured to me with HP, though, I'm sure it will now. ^_^