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British Prisoner
What will be the fate of the 15 British sailors taken prisoner in Iran?
Will they be released soon? Will they be tried?
Hopefully they're home soon!
They will be released soon. I believe the British sailors were allowed to cross the Iranian waters by the US navy. Bush wants to test the readiness of the Iranian navy.
Iran shares the water with Iraq and the US navy is in control of that water and knows the whereabouts of all vessels in the area, they should’ve warn the British sailors.
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British Vs. American English
George Bernard Shaw famously said that the British and the Americans were "two nations separated by a common language".
Below are some examples of different usage in British and American English. You may already be aware of some of these differences, others may surprise you.
UK / US
Bank holiday / Legal holiday
Fortnight / Two weeks
Ordinary/extraordinary general meeting (of the shareholders) / Regular/special shareholders' meeting
(Memorandum and) articles of association / (Articles of incorporation and) bylaws
Profit and loss account / Income statement
Chairman / President/Chairman
Managing director / Chief Executive Officer
Estate agent / Realtor
Bureau de change / Currency exchange
Property / Real estate
Post code / Zip code
Prison / Penitentiary
Stand (for office) / Run (for office)
Unit trust / Mutual fund
Cheque / Check
Current account / Checking account
These are just a few examples. It is often worthwhile establishing whether your audience/the recipients of your document would prefer British or American terminology, as although many US terms may be understood by a British person and vice versa others may cause confusion and a need for time to be spent on further explanations/clarifications.
As well as the differences in vocabulary we just looked at, it is also possible to spot differences in grammar and country-specific structures in 'British' and 'American' documents. Often there are no hard and fast rules, it is simply a question of usage and a result of how the language has developed in each country.
Dates are one well-known example:
UK / US
29 September 2003 / September 29, 2003
29/9/2003 / 9/29/2003
Helpful Hint: It may be worth writing a date out in full, to avoid confusion:
3/9/2003 - 3 September 2003 or March 9, 2003 ?
The use of the comma in a list is also different. Note the extra comma in the US version of the following sentence:
UK:
The company has not issued any shares, bonds, stock options or securities this year.
US:
The company has not issued any shares, bonds, stock options, or securities this year.
The next table shows some grammatical differences:
UK / US
I will write to him next week / I will write him next week
It was nice to talk to you / It was nice to talk with you
I am meeting the union representatives tomorrow / I am meeting with the union representatives tomorrow
I live in Main Street / I live on Main Street
Let's go and see a film / Let's go see a movie
Different from/different to / Different than/different from
I have already eaten / I already ate
Look out of the window / Look out the window
River Thames / Hudson River
Another interesting example is the third person singular form 'one':
"one does what one is told to do".
This is still in use in the UK in formal language, but is very rarely heard in the US .
Familiar speech forms can also differ greatly. Whereas Americans might say "I sure could use a drink", the British would say "I really need a drink" or even "I'm dying for a drink".
You are much more likely to hear an American say "sure can" or "will do" when asked to do something, while a British person might say "yes, of course" or "leave it with me".
Although such usage may be specific to one country, in most cases it is readily understood in the other. Indeed, with today's increasingly 'global' culture, many British people are now using 'Americanisms', although the opposite is rarely true!
Lastly, words are often spelt differently in American and British English. For instance:
UK / US
-s organise / -z organize
-our favour, behaviour / -or favor, behavior
Mistakes can easily be avoided by selecting the appropriate language (British or American English) in your word processing software and running a spell-check. It sounds obvious, but is easy to forget!
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Flipping back & forth b/w "Pink Floyd's The Wall" & "Prisoner of Azkaban" either says a lot about me or about British culture. I say me.
Just finished watching the first Japanese full-length anime film, a DVD from Earthstation 1, titled “Ocean God Soldier.” A B/W film in which most of the characters are animals, bravely doing their duty in the Japanese army and navy, and depicting the native animals of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” as enthusiastically helping the Japanese invaders, while the Western “colonialists” are depicted as silly cartoon humans or demons. Aside from the wartime propaganda, the film is interesting for a number of elements notable in later japanese anime: careful attention to things like beach waves, flowing streams, wind, sky and clouds, open spaces and natural scenery in general, and at least one scene of eating and drinking. I wonder if all the aerial scenes in this movie were an early inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's obvious obsession with flying scenes, and old aircraft in general?
Since the animators were probably classed as “essential civilian workers,” they probably survived the war and were still around 20 and 30 years later… which means they probably were involved in the animated TV serials of the 1950s and 1960s, and could have been teaching younger animators even up to the 1970s and 1980s.
The Disney flavor was apparent in a few spots… like the flying cards when the British fort is invaded… also at least one bit showed an apparent Fleischer schtick, when a speeding truck brakes to a halt and the upper portion bends forward like rubber. The flapping, flexible arms of the surrendering British troops were also reminiscent of early Fleischer stuff. Odd dramatic details such as moving shadows on the ground, “framing” by foreground objects, repeated domestic details like a pet bird hopping around in a cage, etc. might have been picked up from the German filmmakers of the '20s and '30s, or might be all local inspiration. One can easily see the obvious traits picked up from the Disney and Fleischer cartoons, but the Japanese animators were already developing their own characteristic anime style.
I guess the jacket blurb by Earthstation 1 is in error– they claim the movie came out in 1942. The Wikipedia entry says it was made in 1944, and released in 1945, when the war was all but over for Japan, although the general populace was unaware of that. One odd note for a war movie (although not surprising in a kiddie movie, I suppose) is that no actual deaths are depicted… one Japanese death is implied (when an observation plane crash-lands all shot up, with dripping fluid and a loose button hanging out through the fuselage), and another scene shows Japanese monkey-soldiers with knives reaching into a British armored car and stabbing someone out of sight, to accompanying “Aaargh” sounds… but no depiction whatever of flying blood, wounds or death, which I suppose was so as not to discourage the kiddies from enlisting. They do show a kitchen scene, but no hospital scenes.
Oddly, they apparently found a native English-speaking actor someplace to play the surrendering British general, with authentic whiny upper-crust accent, while Japanese caption translations appeared to one side of the image. Maybe he was a British prisoner, or a turncoat collaborator.