Re: [Air-l] levels of jargon

That applies to young scholars in the US, since MacGyver or any other US-American show made (makes) it with great delay into the German or French market (dubbing, localisation etc.), so you would definitely reach a young scholars' audience in such countries like me (Germany grown up, early 30).

Hmm, I'm 31 from the US, and remember the show, though I didn't watch it. I'm definitely too young for Perry Mason but see references to that a lot. I think with any TV show, you probably have to assume that at least some people in the audience might not have seen it, so wouldn't really consider it an "ageist" issue.