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

[Jamieson]

No: HPFGUIDX 16620

Okay, being nitpickey....shouldn't this be on the OT Chatter? Just voicing MHO

Jamieson

storm wrote:

> 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
> > --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> ................
>
> 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)
>
> Storm
>
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