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Old 04-20-2012, 12:01 PM   #189
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I don't believe an individual with a computer has a moral right to tinker with the text of someone else's published work in the public domain (beyond, possibly, the correction of an obvious typo, like teh for the). Obviously, if you do it for your own personal version of the text, that's your business, but I think it's wrong wrong wrong to foist your sanitized/corrected/new and improved version on the masses and pretend it's the real McCoy.
How do you feel about changing spellings, Catlady? Should they be modernised, in situations where they've changed?
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