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Originally Posted by Xanthe
It is "dumbing down" because the operating assumption behind the series is that modern readers can't understand the language of the original book and can't use their imaginations to relate to the situations in the time period depicted, so it has to be presented to them in a way that doesn't strain their brains or cause them to want to learn more about a culture/historical period.
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I would have thought that most people mis-understand words like "sensibility" that does not have the same meaning as the modern meaning.