On 5/24/08, Relata Refero <refero.relata(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The rest of what you say isn't really an
objection, merely a general
statement about Meaning. The bottomline is that a close paraphrase is
sometimes necessary, and when its done, it needs to be done with reference
to the source, and should not be copy-edited without the copy-editor also
reading and assimilating the source. The latter happens all the time.
Relato, do you have an example of someone making an otherwise good
copy edit that distorts what a source said?