[Air-l] levels of jargon

[Johannes Strobel]

Barry Wellman wrote:

>PS: An amusing piece of ageist writing is getting edited out of a paper
>that Jennifer Kayahara and I are writing, "Searching for Leisure". The
>editor has asked that we take out the term "MacGyver" on the grounds that
>young scholars would be unaware of that great 1985+ TV show where Richard
>Dean Anderson saved himself weekly from dire situations by do-it-yourself
>tricks. If you're under 40, see:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/
>  
>
That applies to young scholars in the US, since MacGyver or any other 
US-American show made (makes) it with great delay into the German or 
French market (dubbing, localisation etc.), so you would definitely 
reach a young scholars' audience in such countries like me (Germany 
grown up, early 30).
Johannes

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Johannes Strobel
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