Comments on: See What They Want to See http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/07/13/they-see-what-they-want-to-see/ Toujours Le Meme Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/07/13/they-see-what-they-want-to-see/#comment-2609 Wolfie Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:00:12 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/07/13/256/#comment-2609 Having travelled a fair bit I have observed that there is a cultural linguistics of expectation. In America if you ask someone what they thought of a particular tourist attraction they may say "Really Cool", which translates to mildly interesting. The English take the converse line of reasoning to the extent that is one's own death is "inconvenient" and Armageddon is "rather inconvenient". Caveat : For <i>Guardian</i> readers everything is "a tragedy unfolding" Having travelled a fair bit I have observed that there is a cultural linguistics of expectation.

In America if you ask someone what they thought of a particular tourist attraction they may say “Really Cool”, which translates to mildly interesting.

The English take the converse line of reasoning to the extent that is one’s own death is “inconvenient” and Armageddon is “rather inconvenient”.

Caveat : For Guardian readers everything is “a tragedy unfolding”

]]> By: Ibraheem http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/07/13/they-see-what-they-want-to-see/#comment-2608 Ibraheem Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:29:04 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/07/13/256/#comment-2608 Thanks to the americans who always think anything that happens in this world as "Terror".. But why? Thanks to the americans who always think anything that happens in this world as “Terror”..

But why?

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