Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
There is a lot more to say on this also, when does updating become “white washing the past”? When does updating change the meaning of a word, and thus a sentence and how that relates to the text around it?
This is similar to the issues when translating between languages, how do you deal with translating a word in one language to another when there is no word that fits and it is context dependent? This I think also comes down to intent.
Oh and there is only one version of the Willy Wonka movie. There is also Captain Jack Sparrow in a industrial chocolate facility.
Yeah I think the Roald Dahl example is probably the easiest. Change it because it’s just a fun story.
When you get into nonfiction works, or fiction works that address societal problems, it becomes harder to say whether to edit them.
Agreed, in the case of nonfiction, the intent test should be very stringent. As for fiction, it would very much depend on the themes covered.