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Originally Posted by Muckraker
But when I'm working with genre fiction I am more liberal in my decision-making. For instance, I have no problem changing archaic usage of the word "gay" in genre fiction. It doesn't mean what it used to and the writers I'm republishing would not choose the word if they were writing the same books today.
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Then I won't read your stuff. Because even if word meaning has drifted through the years, I want to read what the author actually wrote. I'm intelligent enough to know when a writer used "gay" to mean "homosexual" and when they intended "happy and carefree".
Half the fun of reading old books is the archaic wording.