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From: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Ford Prefect & SLaTfatF
Message-ID: <270@tellab3.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 20:09:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 20:09:03 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 05:42:24 EDT
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Reply-To: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
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Summary: 

>What has always bugged me about Ford's name is that Zaphod knew it
>right off... Of course, this can be explained away be using the excuse
>that the audience would get confused if Ford had two names. Then again,
>Tricia MacMillan (sp) had another name...

This bothered me as well.  I attributed it to the "virtual babel fish" that
the audience uses to understand the various characters.  Perhaps Zaphod
actually uses Ford's real name, but since he probably isn't speaking
english anyhow, it just gets translated into Ford's "english" name.


>Has anyone noticed any discrepancies between British and American
>versions of So Long and Thanks?  I just received my Pan paper version
>of SLaTfatF, but I haven't previously read the American version.

>As a contribution to the discussion on differences between the British and
>US versions of SLaTFAtF, I noted that in my SFBC edition, Arthur drove
>a VW Rabbit.  Unless he had it specifically imported from America, what he
>was really driving was a Golf.  (Of course, they're now Golfs in the US too..)
>What does he drive in the British version?
>
>				Steve Lionel (Multiple VW owner)

In the Pan paperback version Arthur does drive an old Golf.  There are a few
other phrases that probably are translated as well, i.e. wine bar, etc.

marcus hall