Posted on 02/21/2023 2:24:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
The French publishers of Roald Dahl on Tuesday (Feb 21) ruled out any changes to the late British author's translated books after reports that English editions were being rewritten for modern audiences.
The Daily Telegraph said last week that publishers Puffin had made hundreds of changes to characters and language in Dahl's stories for children including making the diminutive Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gender-neutral and calling Augustus Gloop enormous rather than fat.
Twit in The Twits is also no longer ugly, but beastly instead, while the Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach are now Cloud-People.
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These are not "modern" audiences. These are dumbed-down and indoctrinated audiences.
Correct. None of them, however, know how to do anything. Like writing a book, for example. In truth they’d rather burn the books, were it not for that pesky imagery...
This is getting good. Soon you will have to get the original versions on a torrent or a Samizdat dissident PDF
Were the cloud men in James and the Giant Peach actually men?
I never read the story so know nothing about it.
But if those characters were identifiably male, why would anyone decide to make them gender neutral?
The funny part is, woke people won’t buy these stories anyway, because they don’t feature enough explicit sexual perversion even with these changes. And now non-woke parents won’t buy them either. So they’re appealing to a market share of zero now.
They might be taught in schools
That’s exactly what I said on the earlier thread last week.
From what I’ve read about Roald Dahl, he does cover that.
I think BFG was my favorite of his children’s books. The Giants vocabulary was just hysterical... and meeting the Queen is never to be forgotten once read.
Bravo.
They’ve just made his earlier version leap in value.
Look for Uncle Tom’s Cabin to become Uncle Tom’s Ski Chalet... Little Women to become Little People with Wombs for Abortion...
Good for the French
And that's something you don't hear very often! :)
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