Wow. Seeing this I wish publishers took as much care in removing typos and grammatical errors in books they release.
BJ Muntain
15 years ago
Ah, yes. Bowdlerization has *always* been seen as a public service.
The ‘N-word’? Good gravy. Couldn’t they find a politically correct term that wouldn’t leave a reader annoyed or confused throughout the novel?
When I first heard about this, I’d thought the ad just changed it to get it past spamblocks… but no. It’s a public service to change a word to something so ridiculous that a person wouldn’t be able to get past it. And this is supposed to make it more ‘accessible’?
Wordbridge is a Christian conservative publisher, and by their mention of white guilt this does seem to be an attempt to politically correct what they see as offensive text. I’m a little confused…
Wow. Seeing this I wish publishers took as much care in removing typos and grammatical errors in books they release.
Ah, yes. Bowdlerization has *always* been seen as a public service.
The ‘N-word’? Good gravy. Couldn’t they find a politically correct term that wouldn’t leave a reader annoyed or confused throughout the novel?
When I first heard about this, I’d thought the ad just changed it to get it past spamblocks… but no. It’s a public service to change a word to something so ridiculous that a person wouldn’t be able to get past it. And this is supposed to make it more ‘accessible’?
What a black moment in American history.
Holy f-word!
Doug said: Wow. Seeing this I wish publishers took as much care in removing typos and grammatical errors in books they release.
Unless they just used the find-replace function.
Consider yourself lucky they didn’t use Morse Code.
Wordbridge is a Christian conservative publisher, and by their mention of white guilt this does seem to be an attempt to politically correct what they see as offensive text. I’m a little confused…
[…] Edward Champion opens his mailbox, and finds that Amazon.com is offering a new version of Joseph Conrad’s classic The N-word of the Narcissus. […]
Joseph Conrad and Alex Haley both must be turning over in their graves.
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