Posted by Racer on May 17, 2005, at 22:34:19
In reply to Re: How about some kids books?, posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2005, at 6:47:58
> I love the Harry Potter books.
> In the UK it is "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" Whereas in the US they turned it into "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" What was up with that?????
>
> Apparantly 'philosopher' had some funny kind of connotation in the US. Something like that... Anyone know???As far as I know, it's because they didn't expect that those of us in the US would recognize the Philosopher's Stone as the magic ingredient for turning lead into gold... Just figured that Sorcerer's would be better, since it's about magic, and none of us Ignorant Yanks would get it...
At least, that's what I was told...
Plus, since "we" wouldn't get it, they figured no one wanted to read about Hegel and Plato and all those others...
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