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Old 07-21-2014, 06:14 AM   #416
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I would like to point out that since AlexBell admitted to changing "gay" to "light-hearted" in his upload and was roundly criticized for doing so, he has not changed the text back to the original wording. It's still sitting in the MR library.
Please, why should he??? It is his decision, he invested a lot of thought into it, he explained it but that's all, if we like it this way or not. Make your own version and share it with us.

I don't think that you can buy one single paper book by Goethe where the text is exactly as it was printed 200 years ago (I mean spelling, not wording). We still live.
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