"dacting", from _Veep_

[George Thompson]

Some years ago, a columnist in the TLS proposed that a person whose
occupation was to translate back into Malayalam documents that had been
written originally in Malayalam but had been translated into another
language, would be a remalayalamer.

Just for you all to ponder.

GAT

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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