[ SECRET POST #2548 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2548 ⌋

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Comments

Re: It's a negative feedback loop

[(Anonymous)]

British kids are no more likely to have heard of the philosopher's stone than American kids.

Don't take this the wrong way, you're certainly making sense with some of your other points, but this specific argument is absolutely stupid. Rowling didn't come up with the concept of the stone, and it's actual name is philosopher's stone, both in America and in Britain. Changing it is completely pointless. And it's not like the books expects its readers to know what the stone is as it explains it anyway.

You would have had a point if the title was Harry Potter and the Magic Pram, as that would be a word that American kids would be less familiar with than British children, but a mystical stone mostly associated with alchemy?

Re: It's a negative feedback loop

[nyxelestia]

If British kids are not likely to have heard it either, then picking that as a title in the first place wasn't a good publishing move. Though to be fair, I guess if they expect parents to pick the book, it would make more sense. (Do Brits have in-school kids' book sales/scholastic fairs? IIRC, that was a huge jump-start to the books' popularity in America, or at the very least a lot of the kids I knew picked it up from there).