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The end is near :)
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From
11/02/2008 13:30:15
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
To
11/02/2008 12:39:44
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Politics
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Thread ID:
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Message ID:
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>>>- foreign movies have you seen
>>
>>a few
>
>In most of the rest of the world, people see hundreds of foreign movies. Specially in smaller countries which simply can't produce that much. Actually, in retrospect, I can say that of the movies I saw, about 10% were domestic, 80% in English and the rest is the rest. Which still means I heard Ingrid Bergman speak Swedish and Brigitte Bardot speak French, and I heard all of the Fellini right.
>
>>>Now repeat the above count for:
>>>- musicals
>>
>>1 - Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds - The Best Little -----house in Texas :)
>
>If they were anywhere close to Proper Texan Speekin, that may count as a foreign language, but still the WCC (western cultural circle).
>
>>>- theater plays
>>rare.
>>>- police serials
>>CSI,
>>>- rock concerts
>>a few.
>>>- historic serials (bet some didn't know these existed)
>>Rome on HBO!
>
>Rome was produced in Italy by the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), and RAI (Italy). So still in English, and within WCC.
>
>>>- SF anything (movies, books by foreign authors, cartoons)
>>Oooh. Lots of each! ;)
>
>OK, count four non-WCC authors.

Can't think of a single one. Although, this one book crossed a cultural boundary somewhat:
http://www.sfsite.com/03b/lol77.htm

It did send me to doing a little research.

Thanks
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