Jayne ,'The Message'
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I can't explain it rationally, but I'm just not comfortable with an AU where 9/11 never happened but Katrina did. It's just...clunky.
Using county instead of parish was a stupid, stupid mistake that would not have been made had anyone spent 5 minutes learning anything about Louisiana. It makes the whole storyline look exploitative.
And then there's also this.
I can't explain it rationally, but I'm just not comfortable with an AU where 9/11 never happened but Katrina did. It's just...clunky.
Why do you think 9-11 never happened? I don't recall them saying anything along these lines.
Because last season revolved around preventing New York City from being destroyed, and not one character thought to mention a parallel, including the politician running for office in New York. It's just not plausible to me that 9/11 could have happened in this universe and never come up as a topic among New Yorkers trying to prevent that disaster.
Using county instead of parish was a stupid, stupid mistake that would not have been made had anyone spent 5 minutes learning anything about Louisiana.
I find it hard to get worked about about mistakes like this. For me, it's on the same level as when Emily Gilmore said she was taking "The 95" up to Boston.
Except that we're the only state in the union with parishes. It's something pretty much everybody knows about us, that and that our laws are based in Napoleonic code. It just makes the setting feel tacked on.
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
The Parkway, the Thruway, the Turnpike... :)
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
You mean like "The 101"? Not that I can think of.
Does anyone refer to highways with the definite article other than Southern Californians?
Does anyone outside of California have pink bakery boxes? I'll never forget the first time I was in LA and saw one. I said "look! just like they have on TV!"
Except that we're the only state in the union with parishes.
And it would make sense to hip the rest of the country to that fact. But I wonder if, rather than a mistake, the word choice was as conscious as the language shifts from the British to the US Harry Potter books. Not a dumbing down so much as a homogenization. Though, I suppose if that were the goal, the entire story line would have been set in Des Moines. It's just that I can hear the writers in the room squeaking...Oh, don't say parish, people will think we are talking about churches.
Quite a bad argument...and useless to boot...but not beyond the realm of possibility.