"dacting", from _Veep_

[Dan Goncharoff]

Those of us who are classically-trained might recall that the original
meaning of "redact" was to bring back, so the opposite of "redact" could
now be, um, "redact".

DanG


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > ...which I get this weekend, since our carrier is providing free HBO for
> a few days. Â Mike McClintock (Matt Walsh), the press secretary for the
> eponymous Veep, Selina Meyer (Julia L-D), has just boasted that he's
> getting very good at "dacting", i.e. "taking the black off" (and hence
> unredacting) material that has previously been redacted.
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