Dear writerly friends,

[eliyes]

If ever you are composing fiction -- or non-fiction! -- for the consumption of others, and you use a word you suspect may not be quite right... but spellcheck says it's a word... look it up in a dictionary. Hell, this is the computer age -- stick in in a search engine and see what pops up. Just in case you don't know what it means. Even if you

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[taichara]

*still swinging freely between exasperation, hilarious disbelief and sheer wtf*

[krillia]

...now I'm curious. ^^;

[kiffie]

Ditto.

[eliyes]

Catch me on AIM if you want details. It's not bad, exactly, just... very much not what she means.

[misskalloway]

Yesterday I marched into my boss's office, grabbed the dictionary she has in there and proclaimed that I couldn't actually work until I knew if I was using 'redacted' correctly in my inner-monologue. ^^;;

And then I had to google it on my phone anyway.

[eliyes]

Was it not in the dictionary? :o

[misskalloway]

Oddly not. Which made me wonder if it really was a word or just something I'd made up/picked up incorrectly. ^^;;

[eliyes]

Hmm, maybe it counts as "lingo" too specific to be considered for that edition of the dictionary? Redacted. It's definitely a word.