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Thanks, Candy! One of the comic strips today had YGG in it. I should have been able to figure it out, but the U.D. gave me it. (I don't text either.)
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YMMV = your mileage may vary. It means that what I have experienced my not natch what you have experienced.
It's one thing to complain about modern usages of objectionable language but another to change the language of an earlier age to clean it up for the modern sensibilities. At least we don't have to worry about reading something like:
Oh, how terrible. Was anyone hurt?
No, ma'am. Four African-Americans wuz kilt.
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YMMV = your mileage may vary. It means that what I have experienced my not natch what you have experienced.
See, it must be the fact that we all come from varying parts
of the country, or world for that matter. But that really
makes no sense to me. True, our experiences vary and
thus affect our choices and environment. Even the topic
of "Political Correctness", for that matter. But I truly
agree with you on the cleaning up of literature of an earlier age to make it 'comfortable' for modern sensibilities. I am totally against the cleaning up of
Huck Finn. I like your African American analogy, thanks.
Thanks for the explanation of the ymmv. As I said I don't
text, if that is texting.
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Thanks Jackie  I need it too....
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The word nigger is still in use....I hear it in movies, usually said by 'black Americans' and also in the music industry.... the artist 50cent has recorded it without comment. So I don't understand why a great classic has to be changed. Especially when it effects the meaning. The synonym used, slave, just doesn't fit.
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If anything, by changing it to slave they are being more derogatory
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(I don't text either.)
That's funny: I do text, but rarely use acronyms.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see what the fuss is all about. The book is in the public domain, and folks are free to do whatever they want with it. Students are often subjected to altered versions of famous books. Sometimes for supposed morals, i.e., bowdlerized Shakesperean plays, and other times simply abridged works. The original versions are still available. The simple truth of the matter is that most students exposed to the classics couldn't care less what condition the book is in. Having said that, I do not believe that expurgating books has any benefits or deficits, and so it is a useless and thankless endeavor.
Of course, you are free to call certain groups of people by derogatory terms if you so wish, and to do so to their faces or behind their backs. But, speaking of backs you might want to watch yours.
I wonder when was the last time any of the complainers read Huckleberry Finn or any of Twain's other works.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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hehe I know the answer to this one. At this very moment in time I am about two thirds of the way through Tom Sawyer  p.s. why are we the Senate and People of Rome?
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....I wonder why the term fig-leaf edition was used instead of bowdlerized edition. expurgate is another word I could have used, but I liked the 'fig leaf' image, as in 'cover up they nakedness' in the garden of Eden and how 'the statue of David' was given a fig leaf, so as to not offend 'our senses'. Does anyone consider the offense to Jews by showing David as being uncircumcised?
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why are we the Senate and People of Rome?I was thinking about how txting caused Rome to fall ( link and link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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