Defiling Mark Twain should be a federal crime.

> [Mark Twain](http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Mark_Twain) wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn)” and “Tom Sawyer” will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with “slave” in an effort not to offend readers. > > Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with [NewSouth Books](http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/NewSouth_Books) in [Alabama](http://topics.…