Tag: bowdlerization
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Speaking Volumes: Tampering with Twain
(Published in the Business Standard, January 10, 2011) “Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I’m a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” (From Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain) It’s impossible for those outside the US to understand just how loaded the “n-word” is, and how much…