[HPforGrownups] The American Editors are Idiots! (spinoff on Hermione in US/UK)

[Barbara Foster Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 16082

I agree with this statement wholeheartedly.  I know that JKR has said
that she was so desperate to get the books published that she agreed to
some of the things like (most notably) the title change, and that the
subsequent books don't have as many changes, but I can't imagine why the
US versions couldn't have had a glossary at the back, or something, so
that people who didn't know the words could look them up.

I mean, god forbid US kids be expected to use their brains or anything. 
*rolls eyes*

Barbara :)

Haggridd wrote:
> 
> I abhor the changes that the editors of the U.S. editon of the books
> made in their patronizing assumption that American readers--
> including kids-- would not appreciate the British locutions.  First
> and foremost, of course, is the loss of the title of PS. I won't go
> into all of the rich alchemical history associated with the search
> for the Philosopher's Stone; suffice it to say that the U.S. edition
> suffers from the lack of any such associations.  The differences of
> expression add to our enjoyment of the HP books; the editors should
> have left well enough alone.  Their capital crime, however, is that
> those editors have eliminated a correct word, and, in their supreme
> ignorance actually have made an error in its stead.  The verb "to
> career" is used properly by JKR.  The editors have replaced it with
> the verb "to careen", which means "to dock or beach a ship for repair
> or refitting".  The intended meaning of "to career", "to lurch wildly
> or unexpectedly from place to place", is not by any means an alternate
> or secondary meaning of the verb "to careen".  I apologize for
> ranting this way, but it really annoyed me the way the editors
> condescended to American readers of all ages.
> 
> Haggridd
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