Crepello
As was recently said by a poster on another thread, you seem to like to be argumentative for its own sake.
Your choice, I've tried to explain reasonably.
To deal with your two specific points, see the following from the Concise Oxford Dictionary
· v. (edited, editing) prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing,
or otherwise modifying it. I would say deleting part of a sentence was modifying.
With regard to your extract from my post, designed to twist the meaning completely, I said (missing words emboldened)
There is an old saying that 'the sign of someone's intelligence is how much they agree with you.'
Jetset Lady doesn't often agree with me, but she does disprove the adage above.
Maybe the irony in Texas is buried somewhere near the coppery, but the above is a compliment to a forum member with very different views to mine, whom I happen to respect.