As an American it baffles me that an American editor would change the word disused but not the word lavatory.
One other thing. I’d rather have characters say ‘What do you mean?’ than ‘Whadd’ya mean?’
Again baffling. Whadd'ya mean is an accent, not a word choice. Changing it in text is as ridiculous as writing 50 as "fifdy" when it's an American character's dialogue.
It is bad to do that as you just justify their behaviour, and allow them to keep behaving as such by giving them what they expect and want.
Maybe my attitude could land me some enemies and prevent me opportunities, but I decided not to continue that vicious cycle.
We need to surround ourselves with people we respect and respects us equally, somewhere were feedback is possible.
Not only for the better of our minds but also for the better of the things we produce.
https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2018/06/disu...
(and yes, I am that Paul)
I guess the main thing was that Douglas Adams had the chance to review it and gave helpful feedback.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Apparently that got changed from "zebra" to "pedestrian" which entirely loses the black/white joke.