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Originally Posted by issybird
Earlier in this thread, AlexBell revealed that he altered the word "gay" to "light-hearted" in a novel by Wilkie Collins, because gay would "almost certainly" be read as homosexual.
I admit it, I was rocked by this. All the books in the MR Library are tainted by such an admission, even though it's unjust to the other hard-working and scrupulous uploaders. While I acknowledge the time and effort, it's to no end if the books can't be trusted. Moreover, the clear implication that the uploader thinks the general reader is too stupid to understand a common English word in context is offensive.
And if that puts me in the tinfoil-hat brigade, so be it.
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Well said. I could not have said it better.