17th April 2005, 10:13 PM
Well I'm not entirely sure of that... Most people I talk to seem very open to other cultures, or to put it another way, they really like to make themselves seem more open then other people at any opportunity.
Allow me to put it this way. Let's say I was writing a play about Julius Caeser. I might write the whole thing in the language of the time and just show a bunch of poster boards over the whole play people could read. Or, since I speak English, I would just write the whole thing in THAT, except like maybe some cool phrase during the murder scene that everyone would be quoting at the water well at the office the next day or something. As ABF pointed out, translations aren't perfect. If they decided to have someone translate their english script into Chinese, it wouldn't be perfect.
And I must add, this is not new at all. It's done all the time, and has been since like... forever. Who cares?
Allow me to put it this way. Let's say I was writing a play about Julius Caeser. I might write the whole thing in the language of the time and just show a bunch of poster boards over the whole play people could read. Or, since I speak English, I would just write the whole thing in THAT, except like maybe some cool phrase during the murder scene that everyone would be quoting at the water well at the office the next day or something. As ABF pointed out, translations aren't perfect. If they decided to have someone translate their english script into Chinese, it wouldn't be perfect.
And I must add, this is not new at all. It's done all the time, and has been since like... forever. Who cares?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)