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?
It's called outdated. Modern definitions apply when one is talking about modern society and their understanding. Especially with all the "special" edits that make the rounds in email and on You Tube. You can make anyone say anything with editing now. Excerpted and edited means something entirely different in 2010 than it meant in 1913.
Again, by using the word "edit" the press is trying to smear Breitbart by saying he altered the tape to make it appear that she said something that she didn't. I'm sorry that you don't get it.
Excerpt means "to take an unaltered selection out of"
Using the word "edit" to describe an unaltered excerpt is playing the leftists game. We must control the terms used in order to win the fight.
Quit hijacking the thread. What Breitbart did was excerpt a section of the entire video. Actually, whoever emailed him the video did the job. He just posted what he had been given.
In the big picture, your derailing the thread over semantics is taking the focus off of this marxist, racist, money grubbing fame whore.
The real nugget of information is that her husband was given a FCC license so that now they can communicate to their people, hence the reason she came out attacking Fox News.
I agree that words have meaning. But in the area of film and video, the word “edit’ has come to mean something else.
And I would say that even for literature, there is a difference between an exerpt of a book (like when Truman Capote published a chapter of “Answered Prayers” in Esquire Magazine and when a piece is taken and sections of it are taken out and then put back together with later sections.