"dacting", from _Veep_

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:32 AM, George Thompson wrote:

> 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

And whoever translated the documents out of Malayalam in the first place would of course be an unmalayalamer.  I think I know his name, and his job application letter:

Re: Malayalam.  Nu, Madam, I'm Adam, unmalayalamer.

LH


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