Welcome to another newsletter from A Way with Words! This week we kicked off our online-only summer minicasts. There are *two,* one announcing the minicasts and explaining the term "estival," and another digging into the brilliant...
goldfishing n.— «The day I am in the studio, the report on the opposition’s activities features just one politician talking in an interview. But you don’t hear his words. He is, in TV parlance, goldfishing: you can see his lips move but...
other v.— «There was stuff like even before the point in the trailer where the crowd turned into zombies. They’re sort of being, in sort of post-modern parlance, they’re sort of “othered.” They’re hidden in shadows, you can...
theatre sports n.pl.— «If the interview was any indication,one can expect Actorlympics TV to be one awesomely funny show. Based on what is known as “theatre sports,” the show features a group of actors playing games for which they...
sweetening n.— «I’m not going to claim that nothing I ever wrote or produced got juiced up in post-production. But I never had anything to do with the laugh-track process—called sweetening. I always left that to the line producer, and my...
bankroll nit n.— «Some people use the term “bankroll nit” for people who are very conservative about their bankrolls and who really have to win a lot of money at a given stake before moving up.» —“Online Poker: Interview...