[Sca-cooks] Redaction?

[Terry Decker]

"Redact" is a little more complicated than "edit."  It has the connotation
of accumulation and reduction.  For example, producing a written legal code
from a mish mash of verbal common law is a redaction (and one of the more
common examples of the usage).

The usage of "redact" that most closely resembles what we do is "to reduce a
subject to the understanding of others."  While the reference I have seen is
reducing a large subject area to a single volume, the size of the subject
redacted is not specifically limited.

I still prefer "adaptation."

BTW, I suspect that the way "redaction" is used in the SCA is a
misinterpretation of the usage by Constance Hieatt.  As I recall, the word
appears in at least one of her early works.

Bear

>>What are your preferred terms, Adamantius?
>
>I tend to alternate, slightly arbitrarily, between "adaptation",
>"interpretation", and "re-working". The last was probably stolen from
>Cariadoc, with his "worked-out versions".
>
>Yes, their meanings differ slightly, but they're all better than an
>unnecessarily high-falutin' term for "edit".
>
>Adamantius