[HPforGrownups] A "Harey" Problem, WAS: Re: Newer UK Edition of CoS Has Three Changes

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 43875


--- jkusalavagemd <jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> I fear that this is a case of misplaced sensitivity
> on the part of 
> the American Editors.  One can visualize a harelip
> without having any 
> desire to ridicule or persecute people with cleft
> palates.  Why 
> censor this?  Rather than rob the language of any
> umpleasant images 
> out of misguided paternalism (or maternalism--
> musn't offend any 
> gender!) why not look at it as an opportunity for
> parents to explain 
> what it is in a sensisitve manner, so that when the
> child reader 
> actually encounters someone with the defect, they
> will be prepared to 
> react without shock or surprise?
> 
> Haggridd
> 

I have the American version and it says harelip.  Was
it changed in a later edition?  Mine says it was
printed in paperback by Scholastic in September of
2000.  I thought it was the newer UK version that said
hairy chin?  Oh well, guess I haven't been keeping up
with the discussion that well.


Rebecca


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