Why do officials have to come up with such ugly, pointless words?
For starters it just sounds awful – redacted – like a type of dinosaur or the noise metal pots make when they fall out of a cupboard.
All it means is blacking words out, so people should just say that.
I guess we can’t expect any better from bureaucrats but journalists should know better. So I’m hereby calling on all hacks to banish the ‘R’ word from all news coverage.
Monday, 1 June 2009
Can we please redact ‘redacted’?
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2 comments:
"All it means is blacking words out, so people should just say that."
"Redacted is often used to describe documents from which sensitive information has been expunged."
It is a Labour useage to cover up, hide, lie, cheat, deny FOI etc.
Why not just say "censored"?
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