Broken or Snapped line?

[Mayoyama]

Something that has bothered me for a while now is when you are fishing (especially legendary fish), and the game states "Your line breaks." I'm not refering here to the sheer frustration felt from losing a potential catch (that really angers me too lol), but instead to the use of the work breaks.

Is it not more grammatical (semantically correct) to say "Your line snapped"? I mean.. when I talk to people about fishing, I never hear them talk about a broken line.. rather they say snapped line

Being Australian, I am aware what is "localised" for American English doesnt always match up with other spelling/grammar conventions (such as British, Australian etc). I am just wondering if Americans really refer to a line being "broken" rather than "snapped"... or is this a mis-translation that hasnt been addressed?

It's always fun/interesting to discuss differences between American and British English (and Australian English, which is much closer to British than American)

[Byrth]

Saying the line snapped is more common in the US too (at least in the north-east), but saying the line broke is also acceptable. It's not really a translation error, just a preference thing.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Here in the pacific NW, we say break.

[Mayoyama]

Hmm.. localisation team must be from NW then lol. Australians would not likely ever say their line broke :p