[HPforGrownups] Re: The American Editors are Idiots! Is JKR an American Editor, therefore, an idiot?

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No: HPFGUIDX 16615

Hear, Hear!  Well said, Amy!  Otherwise, why should we not then change
the Elizabethan blank verse of Shakespeare, or comb over Dickens, the
Brontes, and Conan Doyle for those nasty British locutions and
eliminate them for the more understandable language of The National
Enquirer?

Haggridd
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I, for one, did not ask for HP to be translated into what? ... English
translated into English? Or English translated into Americanese? This was
JKR's idea. I disliked it so intensely, that I purchased the British
editions, just so that I could read HP as it was written.

I had absolutely no problems with any British novels that I have read, most
of which I read as a young grade school student. Most of the words I could
either figure out or I would look them up. I actually felt it was an insult
that JKR felt that the American children needed the books translated. I feel
more insulted that some people act like it was an American idea.

Doreen


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hmm, as always I agree with everyone. The changes in language were undesirable 
IMO but name calling is also not very constructive. I would like to point out 
though (as someone else had) that JKR made the changes as part of getting PS 
published in the US. I think that she might have been putting on a 'brave face' 
about the changes in the previously quoted interviews.

Do I have any support for this (in or out of cannon <g>)? No I don't. So if 
anyone has a link to an interview or other source that support my view please 
chime in. OTOH, if what you have to say contradicts what I say then hush now, 
nobody cares what you think anyway. (d, r & c)


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