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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Like I said, the original title doesn't sound "smarter."
The title was changed for American audiences but it wasn't "dumbed down." That's people putting their own spin or interpretation on it. It was changed so that people could identify the subject matter and so that people who don't know about this genre/author/story line could be drawn to it. The original work was published in 1997 in London so it was designed to familiarize others with the line of work and appeal to a larger audience. Forms of American media often have to do the same when it goes national and international.
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But why did it have to be changed for American audiences when it wasn't in other parts of the English speaking world? Like I said in my last post, even Canadians got the original British title, and we usually get what the US gets. The original British title for
Confessions of a Shopoholic was
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopoholic. We got
Confessions, not
Secret Dreamworld.
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