The TLS writes: “To noodle, according to our 1993 Chambers, means ‘to improvise on a musical instrument in a casual or desultory way, esp in jazz’ — which seems right for what [Bednarik] was suggesting Chin was up to. The transfer from jazz to translation, itself a craft open to improvisation, is apt.” Regrettably, another craft open to improvisation went unmentioned:
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Date: 2008-06-24 07:00 pm (UTC)