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

[Alex Clark]

At 02:35 PM 9/19/2003 -0400, Doc quoted me out of context and then wrote:
>You might gain more support for your point of view if you'd word your 
>replies in a slightly more polite and friendly manner. . . .

Doc, if you want to play at being a champion of courtesy, why did you not 
comment on--why did you *not* *even* *quote*--the sneaky yet serious 
insults implicit in the post to which I was responding:

1. That I'm so ignorant that I need to be told what technical jargon is 
for, for the *third* *time* in a fortnight.

2. That even though I had already responded (on the same thread) to another 
attempt to equate all buzzwords with valid technical jargon, my thoughts on 
this subject (being difficult to answer) did not deserve to be answered.

3. That *everything* I have said about why "redaction" is really not "the 
most clear term" is likewise deserving of dismissal without comment.

Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa entered into the discussion in a way that was not 
only careless but also impolite and unfriendly. I will not admit to having 
been wrong to take offense where it was given. I alone was singled out for 
Doc's ad hominem merely because Doc is pleased to disagree with me. But 
since Doc is trying to preserve his deniability, let me try to point out 
clearly what he is doing. He wrote:

>Better yet, stop discussing the matter altogether and instead let your 
>actions speak for you.  Post interpretations. . . .

Apparently I should *silently* accept unfair and dishonest criticisms 
instead of responding to them at all, until I have become established as a 
member of the in-group. As I responded to Doc on 8 Sept.:

>Since I do not accept the in-group jargon, you seem to define the 
>"community" exclusively of me.

In conclusion, let me quote Doc from the archive, 28 Aug.:

>Redaction is often (always?) a matter of interpretation.

He said "interpretation" in order to describe, in plain English, what 
so-called "redaction" really is.

Alex Clark