From: Steve Ewing 

On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:32:58 +1200, Don Hills  wrote:

> In article ,
> Steve Ewing  wrote:
>>
>> A parallel would be if the US subtitled British movies.
>
> There might be some benefit in that if they replaced the British
> colloquialisms and in-jokes with equivalent American ones and added a
> laugh-track...

When Brian Hooker translated "Cyrano de Bergerac", he did some of
that, substituting a reference to Lancelot for some knight more familiar to
French audiences, and such.

As for laugh tracks, well, I sit here in the next room while my wife
watches sit-coms; all I hear are the laugh tracks.  It is rather pathetic. 
But of course, for British jokes we need a laugh track so we know it *was*
a joke 

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Steve 
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