[Sca-cooks] Redaction
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon Jan 24 18:35:46 PST 2011
To redact is to edit and prepare something written for publication.
Redaction is the edited product. Redacting is the act of preparing a
redaction. If I take a medieval recipe and put it into a form that is
understandable by the general public to publish it in some manner, I am
redacting a recipe.
If I take the redacted recipe and prepare a modern recipe from it (no matter
how close it is to the original), am I redacting or am I adapting? I tend
to use the word adaptation to describe this particular product.
I believe the word redaction is commonly misused to describe adaptation, but
I am not a fanatic about it I believe your audience will understand either
word to mean "a period recipe in modern form."
Bear
>I have been looking up just "when" we the SCA started using the word
> redaction for our "version" of a recipe. I have to say some of the
> dictionary definitions have me wondering if we really should be using it.
> So, I am throwing it out to the list.
>
> I was hoping to teach a class on "redacting" recipes at a collegium. I
> welcome any and all comment.
>
> Aldyth
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