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Edit my previous comment - gosh, I have to start reading WHOLE threads before I reply!

In this case, you're talking about Dr. Doolittle. Frankly, I think a version that's the same as the original except that one detail is a heck of a lot less "censoring" than that god-awful movie they made. Yech.

The same argument about the availability of the original version still applies, though - I can easily buy an older copy of the book, for pennies. Nobody is taking them from my hands or preventing me from locating and finding this book, there are no laws keeping me from reading whatever version I like. Furthermore, the change was superficial and mild, from this description, a tiny detail - one that's easily overlooked by the less attentive reader. No doubt books change more than that in translation from one language to another - and that's almost what this is, a translation from one time period to another.