How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version

Post by hwj » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #10

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #2

„We use the unrevised edition because we believe the revised edition (the revisions were done by Carnegie’s relatives after his death) forcefully makes the language of the book gender neutral and politically correct and takes away from the originality of the work. They even went so far ahead as to make quotes from other people gender neutral and politically correct. Most of the revised editions available today do not…

IIRC, something similar to the The Elements of Style for its 4th edition. It got revised by some anonymous hack to match current-day sensibilities, which is totally inappropriate for a book that's so opinionated. Books really shouldn't be turned into brands. If you're going to have someone who's not the author revise a book, they should put the revisor's name on the cover as one of the authors .

Post by IYiYiYiYi » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

IYiYiYiYi wrote: post #13

beardyw wrote: post #8

Should we restore "And Then There Were None" to it's original title? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

no