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davidn ([personal profile] davidn) wrote 2011-07-14 03:06 pm (UTC)

Your opening examples definitely seem to be more acceptable in America, compared to Britain where they're still quite offensive - similarly, I remember reading a story about some Nintendo game that had to be hastily updated in the PAL terrorities when they learned that calling the player "super-spastic" for doing badly meant something far worse than what they had intended.

I'm sure I'd heard the baseballisms before I moved to America and had a vague idea of what they meant, but Britain certainly cares far less about the sport than it knows about the associated phrases.

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