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Originally Posted by Muckraker
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?
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OK, my family is probably strange: one of the games we played with my kids when they were little was reading the dictionary. And if they're not familiar with how a word is used, they look it up.
seriously, I do understand your point, but I still think it's wrong to re-write an old book to modern sensibilities. When does that stop being editorial discretion and start being a new creation?
I can see justifying an ebook with various editions (did he really mean 1816 or was it a typo for 1861?), but I also believe that preserving authorial intent is important.