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    Broken or Snapped line?

    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)
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    Last edited by Mayoyama; 01-05-2013 at 11:18 AM.
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