Roald Dahl

I heard something last night, the effect that these words e.g. fat, might be used to bully children in the playground. I think they proposed to replace fat with enormous. How naive. Children who would use words like fat to bully, will simply move onto using enormous. It might improve their vocabulary, exchanging a three letter word for an eight letter word.
I do hate it when authors slate each other. Hilary Mantel did the same with J. K. Rowling’s books.
Strangely, I like neither Hilary Mantel‘s books, nor Philip Pullman’s books, so perhaps they should go out of print.
Fortunately the publishers have more sense.

Oh the joy Roald Dahl has given to so many.
I sat with our 8 year old granddaughter and laughed through the film Matilda on Friday afternoon.
The first books she read were by Dahl, they have fed her imagination and helped develop her wonderful sense of humour.
His books should be honoured and protected.

Five page thread about this yesterday
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1321418-Censorship-or-rewriting

It’s ridiculous, we teach Shakespeare from primary through to the end of secondary, loads more bullying words and phrases there.
‘Would thou wert clean enough to spit on’
‘Thou art as fat as butter’
To name two. So I bite my thumb at those who suggest it.

TWO other threads currently running about this.

Oh well, just going down the topics, this one comes up first. Maybe GN could combine them. Or censor the unnecessary ones!

Thanks Gagajo just discovered one 👍

J52

Oh well, just going down the topics, this one comes up first. Maybe GN could combine them. Or censor the unnecessary ones!

Yep! Censor the ones you don’t like.
That’s the way to do it!
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Mollygo

J52

Oh well, just going down the topics, this one comes up first. Maybe GN could combine them. Or censor the unnecessary ones!

Yep! Censor the ones you don’t like.
That’s the way to do it!
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Mollygo I was not suggesting censorship, it was a tongue in cheek response to the previous shouting comment that there were already two threads about the topic.
Some of us just pop into the forum and respond to threads as we chronologically come across them! We don’t necessarily know that there are already two or more threads started and are made to feel that rules have been broken, by shouty words.

J52 mine was also tongue in cheek, so please don’t be offended. I didn’t realise there were so many other threads, so I commented on this one.

I’m offended by the sanitisation of any literature.
It’s a pity I wasn’t more articulate and able to write a good defence but I’m not. I do know that it is wrong and should not be changed to suit others. So what if it hurts feelings the truth does very often hurt. But then we can use it to educate can’t we.

Mollygo

J52 mine was also tongue in cheek, so please don’t be offended. I didn’t realise there were so many other threads, so I commented on this one.

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It’s a pathetic strategy which results in the undermining of a great author)s work. It is also ridiculous. Would you sooner be fat or enormous!!!! Many people are fat but enormous provokes a much worse image. Meddling for the sake of meddling.