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Author Topic: T-H-E-A-T-R-E vs. T-H-E-A-T-E-R Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2003 03:50 PM                        Interstingly, the art house chain I am currently with spells it "theater, which I think is pretty cool! Almost as intersting is the fact that I'm moving this "over 2 year old" thread to Yak!!!  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-25-2003 05:38 PM                        I do not know if anyone had mentioned it but there is another word that can be spelled with -er or -re and the word is CENTER or CENTRE. Americans spell it 'Center' and I have noticed it spelled 'Centre' in books and publication from the UK. I prefer to spell it 'Centre'. I think its a bit classy. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-25-2003 05:40 PM                     Ah yes, we have "center" or "century".  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2003 11:46 PM                        There is a theatre in one of our neighboring towns called the "Centre Cinema," but it's on Center Avenue!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-26-2003 11:51 AM                     Are the movies at the theatre/theater in color or colour?  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-26-2003 12:23 PM                        Who really cares what the difference is? What matters is when you buy the domain rights to the web address make sure you get both: www.mytheatre.com AND www.mytheater.com That way the masses can find your damn website.  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-26-2003 01:00 PM                        Dennis we just did that this week, hopefully less people will get lost!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Skallan Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Littleton, CO, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 01-27-2003 02:21 AM                     ...and are your films playing in analog or analogue?  |  IP: Logged Lionel Fouillen Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Belgium Registered: Nov 2002 posted 01-27-2003 02:59 AM                     That depends on our programme catalogue  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2003 03:45 AM                        quote: The system used in his American Dictionary (1828) was adopted in America and accounts for most of the distinguishing features of modern American orthography. But only in the professional print media (newspapers, dictionaries, etc.) & even until today. But the buildings were still called theatre. It would seem to be an easy explanation that it was because the first managers (who named the buildings) were immigrants from England. But the fact is that a fiercely nationalistic idea of an "American" theater grew up among actors & managers in the US, & yet the building & enterprise was still called "theatre". Here's a fast example; an 1843 playbill from (by then) Ludlow & Smith's St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans: http://www.saengeramusements.com/theatres/nawlins/stcharle/stcbill1a.jpg Ludlow & Smith were both born in America (New York) & quickly moved toward, embraced, & encouraged an "Amercian" theater of American characterization, performances, actors, & plays. But they called their buildings & enterprise "theatre". The reason of course is because it's show bidness - if there's a cachet of patriarchy with "theatre", the spelling is manipulative. More exotic, more refined, more legitimate. The marquee is mighty important! Know when you're being manipulated! On the other hand, if you're just caving in to exotical secondary spellings, it can look desparate & make the reader wonder if you're just bourgeois or a failure at manipulation because you give it all away: http://www.parathea.org/ Where they must also have monstre truque sheaux.  |  IP: Logged Craig Hanham Film Handler Posts: 79 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Oct 2001 posted 01-30-2003 12:28 AM                     I am a THEATRE Technician. I work in a THEATRE that has CINEMA plant. That is , I do real live theatre work and, occasionally reel to reel cinema jobs. Generally when someone who doesent know my venue that well asks 'wow a movie theatre here in this building? They get told 'No a stage THEATRE not a CINEMA.!!' But to add to the confusion when I tell people that I work in THEATRE, I often get asked 'which hospital?  |  IP: Logged

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