On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:36:53 -0000, wrote:

Thanks to streaming I've been watching a lot of British TV lately.

Same here. Some shows are incomprehensible.

Quite often I find I haven't a clue what people are talking about, mostly
when it is just casual conversation between the characters.

This might help decode British idioms:
http://www.translatebritish.com
http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:36:53 -0000, wrote:

Thanks to streaming I've been watching a lot of British TV lately.

Same here. Some shows are incomprehensible.


The reason that Yank comedy shows are not entertaining is that you are
briefed that a punch line is coming up several seconds before its arrival,
in order
to give you time to think, whereas in Britland we are quick-witted and do
not
need to be groomed in that way.

Likewise, in Britland we recognise that Christianity was completely debunked
in 1957
when the Sputnik was launched and did not hit a blue firmament on the way
up,
whereas in Yankland there seem to be increasing numbers of people who
subscribe to the superstitious beliefs of bronze-age shepherds in the Middle
East.

"gareth" wrote in news:m2dss1$c5d$1@dont-
email.me:

The reason that Yank comedy shows are not entertaining is that you are
briefed that a punch line is coming up several seconds before its arrival,
in order
to give you time to think, whereas in Britland we are quick-witted and do
not
need to be groomed in that way.


You've never watched House, have you. And if you have, before you say that
House is acted by a Brit, consider that if anything, Wilson has a quicker wit
than House, and Chase gets some of the best lines in the show.

Another US show with rapier-sharp wit very gently and deftly disguised, is
Monk.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:56:44 +0100, gareth wrote:

The reason that Yank comedy shows are not entertaining is that you are
briefed that a punch line is coming up several seconds before its
arrival,

The same can be said be said for most current "comedy" be they American
or Britsh. Luckily we now have enoght TV channels show repeats that it
possible to watch good comedy from both sides of the Atlantic most days
of the week.

Charlie



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