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Posted by Ben in Some Other Things on October 1st 2008 @ 9:36pm GMT
So you know that "Americanize Jump Leads" competition I mentioned a couple of weeks ago? Well, it's still going. We've had a couple of really cool entries, and we've still got time before the contest closes - which is when the book goes to print.
As a rerminder, here's what you have to do: Take a page of Jump Leads, and just... Americanize the dialogue. it's as easy as that. Email your entries to me, and the best three entries will win a copy of Jump Leads Vol.1: Tales From The Flurry. For free.
Yeah. I'm nice like that.
As a rerminder, here's what you have to do: Take a page of Jump Leads, and just... Americanize the dialogue. it's as easy as that. Email your entries to me, and the best three entries will win a copy of Jump Leads Vol.1: Tales From The Flurry. For free.
Yeah. I'm nice like that.
10 Comments
Posted by bachterman on October 2nd 2008 @ 6:46am GMT
how about a hungarianization? does that counts? 
Posted by Joanna on October 3rd 2008 @ 2:26pm GMT
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I like the British dialogue. Then again, I was watching Britcoms and Masterpiece Theater when most of my peers were watching TRL, so what the heck do I know? Posted by Catherine on October 3rd 2008 @ 8:20pm GMT
Ben's just having a bit of fun. He's not actually going to redub Jump Leads to pander to American audiences. The dialogue is pretty uncolloquial to begin with. It should be fun to see Mametized or Tarantinofied or (God help us) Faulknerated versions of Meaney and Llewellyn. Unfortunately I can't write anything creative right now; my current assignment has the word "shall" in every sentence. Posted by Ben on October 4th 2008 @ 2:24am GMT
Yep, this is all in good fun - I'm not going to change the comic, although I'd be lying if I said that this competition wasn't inspired by a relatively recent "suggestion" from someone interested in the comic. Posted by Syckls on October 6th 2008 @ 5:40pm GMT
"Suggestion?" You mean a troll, right? Posted by Catherine on October 6th 2008 @ 7:55pm GMT
Did you actually write a TV pilot script? Can we read it? Posted by Ben on October 6th 2008 @ 8:19pm GMT
@Syckls: I'm sure I couldn't comment.@Catherine: I did. It's more or less identical to Issue #1 as it appears on the website, but I've spent some time retooling it in the hopes that I can one day pitch it to someone here in the States who won't rip all of the soul and Britishness out of the concept.
Posted by Joanna on October 7th 2008 @ 1:31pm GMT
Heh. I feel like a gullible idiot. :-P Posted by tim on October 8th 2008 @ 1:24pm GMT
It's actually quite simple, Ben. Simply drop all the extraneous "u"s. Color not colour. Behavior not behaviour. Truck not lorrie. And remember, E's before R's, except when on Mars. Posted by Phugedaboudet on October 10th 2008 @ 5:13pm GMT
please, PLEASE don't "americanize" anything! Need I remind you of the evil you could potentially create? Remember the "amercianizing" of Red Dwarf?!I love this comic for the fact that it's not hip hopped, dumbed down, etc that happens to most Japanese offerings that are "regionalized".
I beg of you, as an American, if Lend Lease, WWII and keeping the Sov's out of Europe during the Cold War means anything to you at all, don't do it!
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