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Originally Posted by Gusteau
On the other hand, I feel like a learned a lot of things about history and culture by investigating the things I didn't understand in books. I tend to see "out of date" references as a learning opportunity, but I get what you're saying.
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Same here. I was heavily into Nancy Drew when I was younger and there were a lot of things that I didn't know of/understand but I just asked about it or took it upon myself to find out about it. In the case of a series like ND, I can see publishing an updated series of novels/"brand extension" if you will, but not updating the original because you loose all context.
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Originally Posted by sceniczip
It's just weird to edit it. I read it in HS and hated it but don't remember any real awkwardness reading it out loud and we did read some out loud.
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I remember reading it out loud, but I don't recall how we treated the word. Part of the awkwardness is that it isn't as accepted (at least in that context) now as it was when the book was written. I remember the book, use of the word, etc. being part of the discussion of the text when we read it in English class.
The reason kids are as "dumb" as they are these days is because everything gets updated, sanitized, modernized and they aren't taught/aren't able to make connections.