calisdad
Bronze Member
New 'Improved' Huck Finn
Seems they're rewriting 'Huckleberry Finn' just so they can eliminate the 'N-word'.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2011-01-06-twain06_ST_N.htm
This offends me. Deeply. I get offended when I send a letter to the editor and he changes it without notation. This far surpasses that as my diatribe can hardly be called literature. Can they still put Mark Twain's name in the author line? Seems the English teachers of today should be more concerned with the butcherization of the language rather then coaxing a reluctant few to pick up a book in the first place.
I really can't imagine what they were thinking, but they got it wrong. Really really wrong.
Seems they're rewriting 'Huckleberry Finn' just so they can eliminate the 'N-word'.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2011-01-06-twain06_ST_N.htm
This offends me. Deeply. I get offended when I send a letter to the editor and he changes it without notation. This far surpasses that as my diatribe can hardly be called literature. Can they still put Mark Twain's name in the author line? Seems the English teachers of today should be more concerned with the butcherization of the language rather then coaxing a reluctant few to pick up a book in the first place.
I really can't imagine what they were thinking, but they got it wrong. Really really wrong.