nolivingman: (Allison Cameron)
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Name your five favorite foreign-language films/series.

Where foreign is foreign to you, no matter what languages you consider your own.

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Date: 2010-07-09 04:25 pm (UTC)
turlough: purple crocuses ((mcr) wtf?!?)
From: [personal profile] turlough
"Non-English Language" would have been fine

Really??!! That would have been less parochial than "foreign"?!

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Date: 2010-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)
eumelia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] eumelia
Ack! *groan*

Yes, indeed, you are right, that was a very bad turn of phrase and pretty much undermined my point.

Still, other than that sentence, I pretty much stand by what I said in my comment.

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Date: 2010-07-09 05:52 pm (UTC)
turlough: purple crocuses ((mcr) the past is a foreign country)
From: [personal profile] turlough
And as a non-English speaker I maintain that your original comment did exactly what you accused the OP of, namely defaulted to an English-centric mindset.

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Date: 2010-07-10 12:45 am (UTC)
jaaaarne: Photo of a seagull in flight, with slight motion blur. (Default)
From: [personal profile] jaaaarne
Exactly.

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