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1. faerie+dT[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:41:32
>>GavCo+(OP)
Of every change the ones to Augustus Gloop not being called "enormously fat" and instead being called "enormous" are the most jarring as his story is a moral parable about the dangers of gluttony. Even if you think such moral parables are wrong, the phrasing change isn't simply just aesthetic, it's fundamentally changing the story's narrative.
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2. giantg+LT[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:46:11
>>faerie+dT
What was the intent of this change? "Enormously fat" is a subset of "fat". Ostensibly, this would insult more people since there are more fat people than there are enormously fat people.
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3. nickff+dU[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:50:55
>>giantg+LT
They removed the word "fat", not the word "enormous".
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