[Sca-cooks] Redaction? (was: Looking for a period cheese filled pasta/lassagna dish served cold (long))

[Linda Peterson]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> Also sprach Alex Clark:
> >That's what I'm talking about. This sentence could be translated 
> >into English by replacing "redaction" with either "adaptation" or 
> >"interpretation". Either way it would then convey the 
> >apparently-intended meaning. Untranslated, it is not only incorrect 

> >One could say that this is a trivial issue. Well, so are all the 
> >other in-group buzzwords that make the English language less useful 
> >and less accessible. But when you add them together, and then 

In-group buzz words make English more precise and useful for the in-group
using them. I think we resist both adaptation and interpretation as they
have conotations of a broader leeway or artistic license than we are
trying to encourage in the making of SCA food.
 
> Since we've had this discussion before, I might as well toss my two 
> cents in again. I don't like it either. To me, its usage is 
> pretentious and unnecessary, especially when there are other words 
> whose accepted definitions in English are much closer to what we mean 
> when SCAdians use that word than that word itself. It's just 
> somebody's (actually, I know whose) silly idea of exclusivist jargon.

What are your preferred terms, Adamantius?

Mirhaxa
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