On Feb 11, 2006, at 0:20, Joy Beeson wrote:
At 08:17 PM 2/8/06 -0500, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
The only time I got really mad reading one was when it turned out to
be a
bowdlerized "Americanized" version where Mr. Dibbler's famous
sausages-inna-bun had been somehow turned into "hot dogs". Ack. :P
When I first heard of Harry Potter, my initial reaction was that if
the books could be that popular despite being published by Scholastic,
Rowling must be one TERRIFIC writer, to put in enough good stuff that
Scholastic couldn't get it all out.
Scholastic employs equal-opportunity gormless editors -- they mess up
*everybody's* books.
I do, sometimes, wonder about "editing"...
People will use phrases like "he was nice to my mother and I" and it
flies right past the editor's eagle eye (I've been re-reading 25 years'
worth of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for the past couple of months
and gasping at some of the worst offences). OTOH, every "extra" u I use
(in words like "colour") gets corrected by the IOLI Bulletin's Editor
(or the proof-reader)... I don't *mind*, since my spelling isn't
consistent -- I learnt English in the Brit version, but have spent the
past 33 yrs in the US -- but it does seem to me to be a tad weird
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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