Why do titles change from the UK to the US?

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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    The philosophers stone comes from alchemy and according to legend could turn metal into gold.

    Don't understand The Golden Compass one either as it isn't a compass it's an aliethiometer :p
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    i guarantee you that a nation of people who believe that the entire UK comprises of just England have no idea what the Northern Lights are... and as Souly said... Golden Compass means adventure, intrigue, etc... Northern Lights might make them think... hmmmm a movie about Eskimo electricians.


    me: i'm from the UK
    guy: hey man you're from the England!!! cool
    me: nah.. Scotland.. the UK?
    guy: isnt the UK just England?
    me: what fucking part of 'united' confuses you?

    And then you could take them to a Manchester United game, just to see the look on their face. 'Yeah, some people just call them 'Man U' or 'United'. :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    Chime wrote:
    The philosophers stone comes from alchemy and according to legend could turn metal into gold.

    Don't understand The Golden Compass one either as it isn't a compass it's an aliethiometer :P

    Yes, I think the editor was afraid of the confusion : philosopher's stone the alchemy material and philosospher : the boring guy who talks too much. Didn't want to convey a wrong impression.
    I think the Northern lights is the same type of stuff, it's supposed to be the aurora borealis, but may be confused as just basic lights from the north I guess :).
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Chime wrote:
    The philosophers stone comes from alchemy and according to legend could turn metal into gold.

    Don't understand The Golden Compass one either as it isn't a compass it's an aliethiometer :p

    I don't think the Golden Aliethiometer has the same ring to it. ;)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I don't think the Golden Aliethiometer has the same ring to it. ;)


    the Aureate Aliethiometer ;):D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I don't think the Golden Aliethiometer has the same ring to it. ;)

    Nah ... but The Northern Lights doesn't sound too bad ;)
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • chinobaeza
    chinobaeza Santiago Posts: 2,489
    soulsinging wrote:
    i can understand a difficulty changing to another language. but we speak the same language. it has to be about context or market data. what is the spanish title? is it based off the american or british one?
    british
    the philosopher's stone = la piedra filosofal
    northern lights = Luces del norte
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    chinobaeza wrote:
    british
    the philosopher's stone = la piedra filosofal
    northern lights = Luces del norte

    stupid americans.

    for the record, northern lights is a much cooler title than golden compass. maybe they thought it would encourage drug use in kids? god knows we're pretty paranoid about that nonsense. what about the second book or later harry potter books? are those the same? im surprised subtle knife passed muster... subtlety is not very american.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I remember when the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' was changed to '...Hero Turtles' in this country because someone objected to the word 'Ninja'.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    soulsinging wrote:
    i still think the average american is a fucking idiot though.

    makes me glad I am not "average"!! :)
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I remember when the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' was changed to '...Hero Turtles' in this country because someone objected to the word 'Ninja'.
    but not the word Mutant? that's funny.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Lizard wrote:

    but not the word Mutant? that's funny.

    I don't get it either.

    I'm going to Wiki it.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    The Uk has it's fair share of simpletons, don't be too hard on yourselves.
    Out of interest, who over there in America knows what nationality Tom Jones is..?
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I don't get it either.

    I'm going to Wiki it.

    'Upon TMNT's first arrival in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany, the name was changed to "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program.'

    I don't get this bit though...

    'The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to the "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens."

    hahaha! That's so stupid!
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    soulsinging wrote:
    stupid americans.

    for the record, northern lights is a much cooler title than golden compass. maybe they thought it would encourage drug use in kids? god knows we're pretty paranoid about that nonsense. what about the second book or later harry potter books? are those the same? im surprised subtle knife passed muster... subtlety is not very american.
    If you are not part of the solution than you are part of the problem.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    TrixieCat wrote:
    If you are not part of the solution than you are part of the problem.

    what solution? i'm part of the solution becos im not a fucking dunce. that's my solution. don't be a fucking idiot :)
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    jamie uk wrote:
    The Uk has it's fair share of simpletons, don't be too hard on yourselves.
    Out of interest, who over there in America knows what nationality Tom Jones is..?

    welsh.....i wonder why you asked that....:p :D
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    soulsinging wrote:
    what solution? i'm part of the solution becos im not a fucking dunce. that's my solution. don't be a fucking idiot :)
    Sitting around, pounding away on your computer about it doesn't solve the problem.
    It is really fashionable to diss America, I know. It just comes so easily.
    But what you are really doing is making Americans look worse. Sorry. Just my opinion. You can be as book smart as you want to appear to be, but being a good human being, not quick to turn on his neighbors, is what I think is more admirable. A true measure of a man.

    whoa, holy run on sentence.....lol
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    cutback wrote:
    welsh.....i wonder why you asked that....:p :D
    Hah, I should have known you'd be a fan CB, a lot of panty throwing goes on around you too my friend, so I hear.

    I asked because a particularly articulate, and intelligent, not to mention beautiful American person once confessed to me that they thought he was ...American...!
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    TrixieCat wrote:
    You can be as book smart as you want to appear to be, but being a good human being, not quick to turn on his neighbors, is what I think is more admirable. A true measure of a man.


    so you want him to lie :confused:

    because he recognises the failings of his countrymen makes him less a man???

    your post reeks of typical american rhetoric... i can sit here at my comp and realise that over 50% of all scottish people are thicker than a wooly mammoth quiche... but that doesnt make me a bad human being... my predilection for porn and booze makes me a bad person... not truth or reality
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    so you want him to lie :confused:

    because he recognises the failings of his countrymen makes him less a man???

    your post reeks of typical american rhetoric... i can sit here at my comp and realise that over 50% of all scottish people are thicker than a wooly mammoth quiche... but that doesnt make me a bad human being... my predilection for porn and booze makes me a bad person... not truth or reality
    lol...typical american rhetoric. And his constant posts about how much he thinks americans suck ass don't? lol
    Well maybe they reek more of apathy.
    I have never been one to applaud anyone's efforts to put down their neighbor. I realize I am in the minority and I don't care.
    And by saying that he is helping the situation by not being an idiot is indicative of what he is saying. So cool, I guess.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away

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