[Sca-cooks] Redact?

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I like Interpret. :)

Ilia

In a message dated Tue, 13 Aug 2002 9:45:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, rose at got.net writes:

> It's late, and I'm on overtime.  I'm sitting here waiting to file some papers
> with the court, and some of the documents contain confidential information.  So
> I redact that information.
>
> And then I start thinking about the word, "redact."  We use it for our recipes,
> but in the words of Inigo Montoya, "I don't think it means what you think it
> means."  The dictionary says:
>
> 1.  To draw up or frame (a proclimation, for example).  2.  To prepare for
> publication; edit or revise.
>
> So are we really redacting when we take a period recipe and write it out in a
> familiar, modern format?  It's not really editing -- the new recipe is an
> original work, isn't it?  My version is almost never going to be identical to
> anyone else's.  Is translate a better word?  What else is
> there?
>
> Rose