The ONE UK term that drives me nuts

So what is it?

It drives me nuts that the UK term for the Season of a TV show is Series.

Where an entire show in the US is considered the Series and the yearly batch of episodes the season.

So...

WHY?

Why is this terminology used in the UK? Is it used elsewhere?

 

Because the world doesn't revolve around America.

With your pending financial issues, might be worth looking up how the Chinese say it.



(to be fair, I've always used season too)

 

A Brit invented TV, didn't he? Seems to me they can call it what they like, then

It probably comes from Serial. I wish that things like this were high on my list of things that really piss me off.

 

The two words that is used a lot by americans that makes me want to smack people is "You know....", no I don't know, that is why we are talking, if I did then I wouldn't ask.

I normally count the number of times people say it in a short conversation and it normally goes well in the the tens and twenties. In a bad case it is like every sentence has the words in it.

Nearly as bad as "Have a nice day" or "Have a good one..."

 

"Thank you, Ta" FUCK OFF. /rant

 

"You know" is high on my list, too. It exists 1:1 in German, so there's almost no way for me to avoid people saying it
Also high on my list is "Y'know what I'm sayin", horrible slang turd.


What also pisses me off are people who like to say "like" like every three words so it sounds like totally weird, y'know, like as if it's like the words turning into like ugly garbage.

 

The thing with the season and serial thing is probably down to run lengths. Here in the UK a series usually runs an average of 6 - 8 weeks and can generally start at any given time of the year. Also we could have a series of a show do a run in Jan/Feb and then another new run later on in the year. U.S shows usually just have one annual run of episodes.

Another possibility is that over in the States your TV stations are much more aggressively advertised than over here and your big franchise shows always air at the same times each year, usually starting at the beginning of either Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter with shows on average running the full length of one season, sometimes two.

 

Well I'm not fucking changing so deal with it.

 

Well that's sensible. Typically a TV season in the US is September-May Unless it's on cable then it might be anytime between July and august- fall

South Park for example runs in the spring takes a mid season break then returns in October.

Is series used anywhere else in the world? Is it that in Canada or is it Season in Canada too?

 

Ugh, this is me and the word, "literally". EVERYONE says it, all the time, and it drives me crazy.

"I literally had no money left." Don't say literally, just say you had no money left.

The worst is when people say, "Like, literally". OH:

 

Who cares about why it is called a series instead of season. There are far more important questions such as why the storage space of a car is called a boot instead of a trunk? Now that is a question for the ages.

 

I think it's the same, season that is.

In Germany we don't refer to it as seasons (Saison) or series. A series (Serie) is the entire TV show, a single season is referred to as "Staffel", that would roughly translate to something like "Squadron" I guess, the same word is used in sports and the military.

Like in Great Britain, new seasons start all throughout the year, regardless which time of the year it is. Sometimes it's a bit vexing with all the shows that pretend to be take place at exactly the same date like they air.

 

Well if we are going to point out everything that should never be said, how about "in my opinion"? How many times have I read that on these forums? ;-) We know its your opinion. Who's else would it be?

Either way, the people complaining about terms they don't like are worse than the people who use them, like, IMO literally.

 

Guilty

 

I actually looked this up a while ago:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program#Seasons.2Fseries
A US 'season' seems to be a much more confusing term than a UK 'series' :shrug:

 

''No offense but'' Drives me fucking mental.

 

"Could care less" is wrong!

 

bloody wanker imma gonna drink my tea and look at my bad teeth

 

while I'm at it why does Bottom= pussy?

 

XD it means anus