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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by I_am_uncreative on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:07PM (#36233582)
...what? Why would this make a difference?
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by OJFord on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:18PM (#36233721)
A differense, please, GP's reading.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by lmm on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:24PM (#36234485)
I've found this jarring only in one case: the dub of Mary and the Witch's Flower, where the setting was an emphatically English-style public school, the lead character's VA had (or was using) a strong Home Counties accent, but the lines were full of US-only terms like "Somophore". It just felt horribly fake (even in a fantasy story!) because you'd never see those things together in real life.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:30PM (#36235138)
> but the lines were full of US-only terms like "Somophore"

“Sophomore”, maybe?

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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by lmm on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:43PM (#36235239)
Oh probably, I don't really speak American and it was a while ago.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by adhesive_wombat on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:24AM (#36239589)
Somophore is the same thing but they carry flags with them everywhere.
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