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Huck. Finn published without the "N" word

Started by Pax (unregistered) , Jan 04 2011 08:02 PM

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#41 Christian

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Posted 13 January 2011 - 03:18 PM

Relalted: Michael Chabon, on reading Tom Sawyer to his children.

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#42 Pax (unregistered)

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Posted 19 January 2011 - 11:38 PM

Roger Ebert weighs in.

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My love of Huckleberry Finn is great. I would sacrifice every video game in existence rather than lose Mark Twain's novel. I've defended Huck Finn for years against the tone-deaf Puritans who have banned it from schools for its use of the N-Word. Anyone offended by the use of that word the way it is used inHuckleberry Finn cannot read and possibly cannot think.

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#43 mrmando

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Posted 19 January 2011 - 11:46 PM

Two dead comedians weigh in:

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#44 Pax (unregistered)

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 04:40 PM

Why didn't I think of this? (Yes, vulgar language warning)

Replacing the "N-word" with "Robot" in Huck Finn (video)

http://www.kickstart...dget/video.html

Edited by Pax, 10 February 2011 - 04:41 PM.

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#45 Jason Panella

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 04:43 PM

Pax, on 10 February 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

Why didn't I think of this? (Yes, vulgar language warning)

Replacing the "N-word" with "Robot" in Huck Finn (video)

http://www.kickstart...dget/video.html

You beat me to it! I just saw this a few minutes ago. Amazing. Just amazing.

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#46 Pax (unregistered)

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 04:49 PM

Peter T Chattaway, on 04 January 2011 - 10:17 PM, said:

: The last church i went to changed the Nicene creed: "...holy ~~catholic~~ Christian church..." . . .

Wow. That misses the point completely.

Apparently, this is not uncommon. (I had hoped it was.) I'm reading J.I. Packer's Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, and this and similar changes were cited as a common result of the church's failure to catechize and to come to grips with issues of language.

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#47 Peter T Chattaway

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 05:01 PM

Pax wrote:
: Replacing the "N-word" with "Robot" in Huck Finn (video)

Haven't watched the video yet, but my first thought is that this is kind of apt, really, since the word "robot" basically means "slave" (or "servant", or "serf", etc.). And "slave" is the word that the editors of this new improved Huck Finn plan to use, yes?