They call vacations "holidays" in the UK and other English speaking countries outside the US. Although Pee-Wee is not British, so I don't know why they used holiday instead of vacation.
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shareGoing on holiday is the same as vacation.
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Love means never having to say you're ugly. - The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Not a whole lot of people are grammar Nazis like you. Other cultures have different meanings for words too. I bet you're the type of person that always corrects how other people talk and you can't stand to see anything different. My advice to you is to learn a little tolerance.
share(A true grammar Nazi would know that holiday means vacation in other countries, this dude is just dumb) LOL
shareI assume the title is an homage to "M. Hulot's Holiday".
The Mr. Bean movie used a similar title, probably for the same reason.
Ah, give the OP a break. Since Pee-Wee is American and the movie takes place in the United States, it is a bit odd that they used the term "holiday" instead of "vacation." In the US, "holiday" refers to widely observed days like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Independence Day, etc. "Vacation" is time off, usually from work or school, that often involves relaxing or a trip. I get that it has a different meaning in other parts of the world -- it's just odd they're using it with a different definition than what is used in the actual setting of the movie. I don't see any reason to belittle those who ask about it.
From Wikipedia: "The word "holiday" has some variance in meaning across different locales. In the United States the word refers to widely observed days of rest and recreation, whereas in the U.K. and many Commonwealth nations including Canada, the word refers to any extended period of recreation."
Well said
shareI agree. I'm not intolerant of other countries doing things differently, I just thought it was odd that a movie produced by Americans and set in America would use British terminology, just the same as if Pee-wee referred to his days in high school as his days in college, or called a cookie a biscuit.
shareHe would refer to his days in high school as high school and his college days as college.
I don't know where you found the idea that British people call high school college.
I'm probably over-thinking the question, but it seems to me in the spirit of "Mr. Hulot's Holiday".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046487/
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Agreed.. I also mentioned this connection a few replies up. :)
shareThey probably did not want the movie to be confused with Vacation, and also they want it to work in other countries.
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