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1. bko+h5[view] [source] 2023-02-18 18:42:51
>>GavCo+(OP)
Here's a good list of changes. Most are about removing any references to ugly or fat. But also other strange things like changing the author's Matilda likes to read to include Jane Austin and John Steinbeck, not calling people crazy, swapping screeching to annoying, removing brothers and sisters to favor "siblings" and using "folks" instead of "ladies and gentlemen"

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1626860237104857089

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2. koolba+pW[view] [source] 2023-02-19 01:09:43
>>bko+h5
> In Fantastic Mr Fox a description of tractors, saying that “the machines were both black”, has been cut. In the new Dahl world, it seems, neither machines nor animals can be described with a colour.

And removing any reference to color … for tractors.

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3. mozman+YY[view] [source] 2023-02-19 01:36:38
>>koolba+pW
This is astounding, I look forward to the time where these types of changes revert back to common sense.
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4. phist_+O21[view] [source] 2023-02-19 02:05:04
>>mozman+YY
You're going to be waiting for a while then.
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