Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
Interesting. As I noted in my previous post, the vast majority of editions of Austen you'll find today do have modernised spelling, and a number of people have said that they dislike the original spellings I've chosen to use in the editions I've uploaded here to MR.
|
Shrug. I probably could have worded things better, because I don't hate all modernizations or anything like that (and as I said whatever an uploader wants to do to their edition is fine). Also modernized spelling is different, for me, than alterations made to make the places/setting feel modern, but it's nice to know going in how heavy or light a hand might have been used on the text. Anyway I prefer the Austen you've done, appreciate them, but at the same time wouldn't probably be able to get through something originally written in old English without some modernization, although maybe that would be looked on as a translation of a sort.