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Originally Posted by Muckraker
This is the mindset I'm talking about. I disagree that it is arrogant for a modern editor to identify and change a problem with a previously published work. Problems don't get a free pass simply because they made it through a publishing sieve sixty years ago. We're not talking about the founding fathers here--just people doing their jobs back then and people doing their jobs today.
You do not represent the majority of pleasure readers though. Most up-and-coming readers have never heard the archaic usage of "gay" and "faggot." Coming across those terms will distract and confuse many readers, not entertain them.
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Well, let's see. If a character enters a phone booth and uses a pay phone, do you change that to the character using a cell phone, because phone booths are archaic and a modern reader might say, What's a phone booth? If a character plays a record on a Victrola, do you change it to an mp3 on an iPod? I mean, if you're going to take it upon yourself to modernize, where do you draw the line?
I think what you're doing is absolutely horrible. I would like to know what books you publish so I can avoid them like the plague.