[Sca-cooks] Redaction?

[margali]

does one person calling a quadruped with a 4 n*ppled udder, cloven 
hooves, and 4 stomachs a duck make the term 'cow' invalid for the whole 
world?

On this list, for the entire time i have been on it  [iirc i joined a 
month or less after it was founded /mumble years ago] redaction was the 
term used. Everybody used it, and it became valid cooks list vocabulary.

To make the case that because on a list of over 100 members 3 members 
object to a term that everybody else considers to be perfectly fine and 
dandy makes you sound like a pettifogging micromanaging nitpick.

I would tell you to relax, have a homebrew and go with the flow, but you 
are probably too uptight to drink anything but mass produced canoe beer. 
Personally, I detest the movement to codify absolutely all juice out of 
anything, whether it be language, mannerisms or mores.

Heck, we didnt start codifying the spelling of american until the 
1800s..........

Can we PLEASE get back to something of importance like FOOD?

I want a good recipe for strudel, classic german style. all the recipes 
that i seem to be able to google are american pablum using pie dough 
*hacks hairball*
margali



Alex Clark wrote:
  Since the usage in question was
> incorrect to begin with, and remains controversial in the SCA (I may be 
> the most active and direct advocate for reforming this usage, but I am 
> *not* the only one), it is *not* now standard. I hope that it never 
> becomes standard, because it would add a bit of utterly useless 
> complexity to our language.