Words do have meaning. In this case both ‘edit’ and ‘excerpt’ mean to ‘select’ or ‘cut out’ sections of the original material. And the 1913 definitions do have meaning, and do apply just as well to audio-visual material as they do to written matter.
It’s interesting. You run around like a Robo-chicken sqawking “Words have meaning!” “Words have meaning!” “Words have meaning!” brrraawkk “Words have meaning!” “Words have meaning!” brraawkk
But then you DENY that the meaning in a dictionary that is 97 years old no longer means what it says.
That’s called what? Maybe you know the word to describe it. Cognitive dissonance? Schizophrenia? ADD?
Just to be clear, in case you might think I don’t like you or something like that: I like you.
I think you are another great Freeper.
Just wrong on this issue of the meanings of edit and excerpt.
Take, for example, what I heard on a top of the hour radio news report on the subject. I can't remember if it was Fox news or ABC:
'The Whitehouse today apologized for the firing of Ms. Sherrod based on comments she made that were take dramatically out of context.'
The context of what she said was complete in the EXCERPT and not mitigated by the totality of the speech. In fact she admitted her bigotry remains to this day, and still foments racial discord by reinforcing the lie that white people are stealing the elections.
This post was only EDITED for emphasis, punctuation and spelling. Any remaining errors can be attributed to insufficient intake of coffee.