[ SECRET POST #2223 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2223 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[starry_starrrz]

AFAIK quite a few British shows get dubs and changes for US audiences, and I don't see a problem with it. I've always kind of wished they'd do it in reverse because I'm not much of a Yankophile. I have no idea what characters are talking about at times. xD

[kamino_neko]

This is the first time I can remember a TV show getting edited for cultural references, rather than time (since UK shows have several minutes fewer commercials than US and Canadian shows).

I know it happens fairly regularly in books (Harry Potter is an infamous example, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also comes to mind immediately*), but not TV.

* I'm pretty sure even the British version has been changed to replace the pre-decimal currency with the new versions.

[starry_starrrz]

I really want to know more about how common it is now! :3

I know it's fairly routine to dub TV shows for young kids so that accents and word usage is familiar. (That works both ways - though I've heard of shows for older kids getting an American accent dub. The Worst Witch is the one that comes to mind.) UK made documentaries get redubbed with American narrators quite frequently too.

Not sure about how common it is to get small cultural changes like the one OP is talking about though.

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's fairly routine to dub TV shows for young kids so that accents and word usage is familiar.

This was actually a weird shock for us. Our kids were born in the UK while we were stationed there, so all of these shows we were watching had Brit accents. We had no idea they were redubbed until we got back home to the States and heard them using American accents. On some of those shows, I wish we could have the UK accents back. Oh, and Blues Clues has a different "Steve".

The other thing we noticed right away about US shows being shown in the UK was how they edited the violence. The first particular instance I remember was Alias, where Syd supposedly went through every bullet in her gun, but they only showed and had the audio for two bullets (the US version had six shots). Season four of One Tree Hill ended up having quite a few episodes airing out of their timeslot (going to after 10pm) to compensate for the subject matter/violence, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering the subject of the secret - do you know what characters on US crime shows mean when they talk about things like a misdemeanor and different classes thereof? Because that seems like a rough equivalent. I can see how this would be annoying in either direction

[starry_starrrz]

Not really - I don't know the naunces of it. Like, how serious it is, etc. I struggle with the school system too; I have no idea how old a freshman would be for instance.

[kamino_neko]

How old a Freshman would be depends on what kind of school they're a Freshman at.

Freshmen are just students in their first year of that level of schooling, typically High School or University, so, assuming no early admittance, no being held back, no time off, etc, they'd be 14 or 18.

In high school it'd go Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. In university, it seems to stop using that system after the sophomore year.

[starry_starrrz]

So you're a freshman twice then?

Here you're a fresher in your first year of university only (typically at 18).