Quoting MikaLove:

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I think this whole issue is about mutual respect for that people are from different parts of the world, and not just one country

We simply need and have to respect each other and where we come from rather than imposing things on each other that are very unfamiliar and strange to them.
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WE are the community, and it is multicultural.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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Exactly... we are talking about Region 1 US profiles here... You can't be surprised that the profiles follows  the US standards. Mainly because they are US Releases... and the overviews themselves are most likely being done by people in the US.... so they will most likely use US standards as well.

We can't contribute profiles worrying about how someone outside the US not liking the standards that the US uses just because they either imported the R1 release or are using the region one profiles for whatever reason.

Dude (Mika)... I get where you're coming from, I get your frustration.

But, you know, on top of everything everyone else has said here, this program itself is an American production. US program, US developer, I haven't counted them but probably mostly US users entering mostly US films and US TV shows the vast majority of which are US productions.

Pete, Hal, Max, Kathy, TheDarkKnight and the rest are all very wise when it comes to the ways of The Force (sorry, that's an Americanism—it means they know how DVDProfiler works, flaws and all). They are from a different part of the world from you, respect that.

We Americans are accused constantly of being "Cowboys" and "Mavericks", especially by Europeans (East and West). What do you expect? Our great country is made up of the unwanted from all over the world—all the people who stood up one day and said, “This blows, I'm moving to America.” Add that attitude up over a couple hundred years, and viola, you've got an entire country full of people who don't really care about the rest of the world's opinions of us. Could our attitude be better? Possibly. But the point is, as a whole, we don't really care. We're happy with what we have and who we are. We have a popular saying over here for whiners and complainers...“Deal with it.” Or don't. Your choice.

You want to do your own personal thing in Sweden, fine. Just stop arguing that it's wrong to not do it your way, please. The rules are the rules, warts and all.

I drove a BMW for many years when I got out of college. Was it different from my Chevrolet's? Absolutely. I embraced the differences for what they were, it offered things I couldn't get in an American car. I drove a Volvo for over 10 years. Different? Yes. I loved it. It was expensive as hell to have repaired, but I kept driving it.

You need to either embrace this program and its community for what it is, or I suggest you point your browser to www.invelos.se.co and use whatever programs you find there. *sarcasm* warning!

I don't post a lot on these forums, but I do read them. I gain a lot of insight into how I should make my contributions in the community-accepted way of doing things. All the aforementioned members and others have been more than polite and timely in their answers to my questions about the community-accepted manner in which things should be done. I do laugh out loud some nights when I see threads like this—where one member is completely intransigent in their view of how things should work and never stops. You may not find it humorous, but I promise you many of us read this thing, smile or laugh, and think, "Really? Again? More with the rants?" You get p*ssed, we laugh.

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I've made this post extremely long on purpose, using the tools made readily available to one-and-all, right here in the provided Forum comment-posting-thingy. No Notepad, no cut/copy/paste, no Microsoft Word, no alternate operating systems, no browser-cache-clearing, no cookie-washing. One browser, one laptop, one keyboard, one webpage. It didn't even require a Macintosh with OS 10.3.9¾ "Bobcat". If you'll open your eyes and look immediately down from these very words as you type them, approximately ½" (that's about 127mm ), there exists a large rather blue-colored button marked Preview. Click that occasionally—it refreshes your page, while at the exact same moment in the timeline of the vast Space-Time Continuum some of us like to call "Reality" it reminds the internet and the forum servers that you actually still exist and haven't collapsed dead on your keyboard. Amazing.

It is my sincerest hope that my use of any of the following words and/or punctuation marks did not offend you: American slang, the King's English, dashes, em-dashes, ellipses, quotes, italics, bold, parentheses, typesetter's quotes (did y'all notice those?), spaces, periods, commas, apostrophes, the French word viola, slashes (either forward or backward), emoticons, and my shameless use of the word y'all in a public place. I'm sure my brilliant mates from across the pond will forgive my lack of time to spell properly words such as humourous and colour. I did not seek written permission from LucasFilm to use the phrase "The Force™". If any of you are offended...I don't apologise (<UK version )...deal with it.  

Sheesh....

Mike in TX

I couldn't find an appropriate place to properly use an en-dash in there, so here goes:
Rest in Peace, Groucho Marx (1890–1977), you are truly missed my friend.  Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Quoting SgtDetritus007:

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...the French word viola....

Yves isn't going to like that one....correct spelling is "voila"! 

Now you've done it, Hal; it is correctly spelled voilà.

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Quoting hal9g:

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Quoting SgtDetritus007:

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...the French word viola....

Yves isn't going to like that one....correct spelling is "voila"! 

Now you've done it, Hal; it is correctly spelled voilà.

That depends, did you take it from the credits as credited? 

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Quoting SgtDetritus007:

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...the French word viola....

Yves isn't going to like that one....correct spelling is "voila"! 

Now you've done it, Hal; it is correctly spelled voilà.

Touché!  (I actually knew that, but had a brain fart!)

Very amusing. 

Quoting SgtDetritus007:

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It is my sincerest hope that my use of any of the following words and/or punctuation marks did not offend you: American slang, the King's English, dashes, em-dashes, ellipses, quotes, italics, bold, parentheses, typesetter's quotes (did y'all notice those?), spaces, periods, commas, apostrophes, the French word viola, slashes (either forward or backward), emoticons, and my shameless use of the word y'all in a public place.

I thought those of us who were taught how to speak and write by the Queen might find a translation of this part of particular value:

Community-led language enhancement (in America), the Queen’s English, minus signs, long dashes, three full stops in a row, speech marks, leaning type, heavy, brackets, American interpretation of logical speech mark use rules, gaps, full stops, commas (yes!), inverted commas, foreign gobbledygook, solidus or reverse solidus, smilies and everyone.

The irony of all this is that the majority of the world's computer using population relies on Bill Gates to spell and decide on grammar for them anyway.

Okay, can we talk about football, petrol and pavements now please?

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Okay, can we talk about football, petrol and pavements now please?

But wich one? Canadian football, American football or the one you call football but we call soccer 

Quoting MikaLove:

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If you the think it's so important to have the "American em-dash", then make another contribution...!

Maybe I missed something but isn't that exactly what Pete did...make a contribution to add the"American em-dash"?

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Don't tell me that I am wrong, when my knowledge of English is better than many others'. For example.

Again, maybe I missed something, but aren't you the one who told Pete he was wrong, when the fact is he was correct?

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Damn American public education system...it's got me all screwed up!
Je suis désolé, Yves!!

No problem