The process for choosing a pope is cloaked in history and ritual. Cardinals meet in the Sistine Chapel and attempt to decode the next pontiff. At least that’s what Yahoo! Movies tells us:
The American Heritage dictionary tells us that decipher means:
- To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter).
- To convert from a code or cipher to plain text; decode.
This sentence tells us that the writer needs an editor or a little more time with a dictionary.
March 13, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Huh.
Decipher is a word. I agree with them on that level.
March 13, 2013 at 5:15 pm
And they did manage to spell it correctly. Points for that.
March 13, 2013 at 1:19 pm
I’m still wondering why the Yahoo! Movies section is interested in the Papal election. Perhaps they believe that’s where readers get all their information? (If so, we’re worse off that I thought.)
More than that, the word “real” doesn’t quite seem to fit. (Or perhaps that’s to let their movie-going readers know that this may just be real life, as opposed to the movies.)
March 13, 2013 at 5:16 pm
The article is about fictional popes in movies. A lame premise made lamer by the writer’s need to use a word she doesn’t understand.