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Re: OT: excellent book on information theory
From: Paul Rubin <//phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 21:29:57 CET
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 21:29:57 CET
Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:
> That made me smile on a Monday morning (not an insignificant
> accomplishment). I noticed in the one footnote that the H.P.
> book had been "translated into American". I've always wondered
> about that. I noticed several spots in the H.P. books where
> the dialog seemed "wrong": the kids were using American rather
> than British English. I thought it rather jarring.
The US edition even changed the title from "Philosopher's Stone" to
"Sorcerer's Stone". American schoolkids weren't expected to know what
a philosopher was (or anyway what the Philosopher's Stone was).
Received on Tue Jan 17 16:50:53 2006