Never saw either, as they were not run where I lived. So tell us!
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Capeside in "Dawson's Creek". It was mostly filmed in Wilmington, NC.
Blond actresses (Eva Gabor and Shirley Jones)?
Could be. I was working in Springfield Ohio at the time.
I meant the soap opera ficticious city. I haven't watched in years, but the characters never seemed to dress for winter.
Piet Mondrian-style artwork (geometric colored shapes of different colors separated by black lines).
In the case of Green Acres, it's the abstract painting on the wall of Oliver and Lisa's apartment in Manhattan. In the case of The Partridge Family, the design on the bus.
I couldn't find a picture of where the artwork appears in the credits, but it's there toward the end.
At one point on General Hospital, they said it was Port Charles, New York.
This was during the height of the “Luke & Laura” days. I remember Laura was trying to call home and told the operator she needed to call “Port Charles, New York.”
Apparently she didn’t know anyone’s phone number or how to “dial one, plus the are code.”
Yes, newsmark, you're so right! It got a little confusing at one point because of the swiftness with which people were able to travel between Port Charles and Puerto Rico. It almost felt like the two were adjacent, LOL!
"As The World Turns" was set in Oakdale, Illinois, including fictional TV station WOAK.
Oddly enough, this makes it even more plausibly Californian. Towns like "Mar Vista" and "Isla Vista" don't make any sense in Spanish either! In real Spanish "Mar Vista" would be "Miramar".
Or, more probably, Vistamar or Vista Mar... of which there are several, from Panamá to the Canary Islands!
Of course, CA, AZ, NM and TX are filled with street and development names that are not even in correct gender agreement like Calle De La Sol.
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Faux versions of other languages are part and parcel of American advertising, not only Spanish, but French, German, Italian, possibly others. They really don't know the language, so they just kind of "wing it" to concoct something catchy. There's a beauty salon near my home that has a horribly butchered pseudo-French name.
English is used similarly in some Asian countries, but at least in those cases, they're trying to render it the best way they know how. It's more a case of "yes, it's grammatically correct, but no English-speaker would ever say something like that". It's basically due to a lack of native experience in the language.
These two fictional towns were introduced during TV's infancy: Riverdale and River Heights. Both have been in many movies and TV shows since then.
The other one I just thought of was Hudson, Alberta, in the series Heartland.
The other one I just thought of was Hudson, Alberta, in the series Heartland.
The strangest for me was working with a Chinese electronics manufacturer, who had a customer service representative named Angela Lee. I had done business with them before, and Angela was always the person who handled it for me. But then I get an e-mail from Angela, trying to recruit me as a potential customer, apparently with no knowledge of our prior dealings.
A sudden case of amnesia? No, as it turns out, "Angela Lee" was just a fake name used by all of their reps! Needless to say, I'm not giving them any more of my business.
I wouldn't be doing business with Verizon, Bank of America, SiriusXM or Xfinity if I were to insist that every "Lance," "Kaitlyn" or "Christian" who picked up the phone in India, Egypt or Malaysia when I call customer service use his or her real name. All those corporations offshore their customer service operations. Why pay someone $15 an hour when you can have someone else pay them $5?
Reading the news on the Chinese press service, Xinhua, I find that they have their own version or style of English, much as Jamaica or Belize do. Slight differences in verb tenses, modifications of idiomatic expressions and the like show what you mention as "lack of native experience" but this is a self-perpetuating modification of English within a closed system.
And that may be $5 a day, not an hour.
I have seen that done before the internet. Whether you call Angela Lee, Shirley Whitegirl or Missy Smith depends on the lead source.
And then there's Indian English. I can chance upon a random website, and if it's from India, it jumps out at me. It's hard to describe. But the phrase "do the needful" is incredibly efficient and conveys a lot of meaning in just those three words.
I like “kindly do the needful”