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What does it mean in this context to be the opposite of this?

em-bee 2y ago
opposite in the sense that everyone in austria and germany knows "dinner for one" and practically noone knows sound of music. while "dinner for one" is relatively unknown in other countries, despite being in english, but most know about "sound of music". i myself heard people talk about "sound of music" when i was travelling in europe and i only first watched it while in latvia. knowledge about "dinner for one" is only spreading in recent decades as it gets shared on social media and international discussion forums, as exemplified in this very thread.
jccalhoun 2y ago
Dinner for One is from the UK but hardly anyone in the UK knows about it while people in Germany love it. The Sound of Music is about a real Austrian family but relatively unknown in Austria and Germany while people in the USA (and I would guess other English speaking countries) love it.
- devilbunny 2y ago
  I wouldn't think that musicals would translate well. And the von Trapp family still owns their resort near Stowe, Vermont, so most skiers in the Northeast at least would have heard of them.
skissane 2y ago
It's not really the opposite though. The opposite of "British thing people in Germany love but few in UK have heard of" would be "German thing people in country X love but few in Germany have heard of". "The Sound of Music" doesn't really count as an example of the opposite, because it is more of an American thing than a German or Austrian thing. It is an English-language 1965 American musical film, based on an English-language 1959 American stage musical, based on an English-language book written and published in America by an Austrian-American woman. Despite the Austrian setting, and parts of the film being filmed in Austria (the remainder was filmed in LA), on the whole it is more American than Austrian. There were two West German films made based on the same book, Die Trapp-Familie (1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958), and the creators of the 1959 American musical got their initial inspiration for the project from watching those West German films. Still that doesn't change the fact that the American musical and American film are American not German or Austrian. And I'm not sure how much of the actual content of the American musical and film are due to those West German films, as opposed to them merely being a motivator for the musical's creation.

opposite in the sense that everyone in austria and germany knows "dinner for one" and practically noone knows sound of music. while "dinner for one" is relatively unknown in other countries, despite being in english, but most know about "sound of music". i myself heard people talk about "sound of music" when i was travelling in europe and i only first watched it while in latvia. knowledge about "dinner for one" is only spreading in recent decades as it gets shared on social media and international discussion forums, as exemplified in this very thread.

jccalhoun 2y ago

Dinner for One is from the UK but hardly anyone in the UK knows about it while people in Germany love it. The Sound of Music is about a real Austrian family but relatively unknown in Austria and Germany while people in the USA (and I would guess other English speaking countries) love it.

devilbunny 2y ago
I wouldn't think that musicals would translate well. And the von Trapp family still owns their resort near Stowe, Vermont, so most skiers in the Northeast at least would have heard of them.

skissane 2y ago

It's not really the opposite though. The opposite of "British thing people in Germany love but few in UK have heard of" would be "German thing people in country X love but few in Germany have heard of". "The Sound of Music" doesn't really count as an example of the opposite, because it is more of an American thing than a German or Austrian thing. It is an English-language 1965 American musical film, based on an English-language 1959 American stage musical, based on an English-language book written and published in America by an Austrian-American woman. Despite the Austrian setting, and parts of the film being filmed in Austria (the remainder was filmed in LA), on the whole it is more American than Austrian. There were two West German films made based on the same book, Die Trapp-Familie (1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958), and the creators of the 1959 American musical got their initial inspiration for the project from watching those West German films. Still that doesn't change the fact that the American musical and American film are American not German or Austrian. And I'm not sure how much of the actual content of the American musical and film are due to those West German films, as opposed to them merely being a motivator for the musical's creation.