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Old 04-16-2012, 09:54 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Muckraker View Post
Is this true of young readers or ESL readers? Is it fun to confuse them about word-meaning just to preserve an authorial intention that never existed?
You could put a brief explanatory glossary in the front with a note that language changes, people used to use terms differently, and here's what they really meant when they said X instead of Y that we would say today.

It would be educational and added-value, IMHO.

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