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You'll never please everyone Alex. I mean people like Thomas Bowdler even went to the extreme of changing Shakespeare's words to remove words that they considered offensive to women and children in the 19th century for example. Others have even tried to rewrite C.S. Lewis' Narnia books to remove the Christian allegory that they object to (don't know how they can do that without destroying the books) and I have no doubt there will be people even in the future who will do similar cutting of the written word. I don't think you can do that without destroying what the author created myself. If you change Shakespeare then it's no longer Shakespeare, but some sort of adaptation of what he wrote. Likewise if you change what Aristophanes wrote (aside from translating) by substituting words I think you lose the flavor of what he intended. His words have been around for several thousand years though. How can anyone think to have authority to change them? Not that I'm implying that you are of course. Just that some people would say change this and that etc.
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