"remalayalamer" [Was: "dacting", from _Veep_]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/11/2012 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.

A bit of free verse:

Is this what George (or the TLS columnist) wants us all to ponda? --

Where to place "remalayalamer" in proper sequence
with "one-l lama", "two-l llama", and "three alamer"?


Joel


>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
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject:      Re: "dacting", from _Veep_
> > >
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> > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > Poster: Â  Â  Â  Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > > > Subject: Â  Â  Â "dacting", from _Veep_
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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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>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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