New word? / technical term?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 12 21:18:09 UTC 2008


Many thanks to everyone!

-Wilson

On Feb 12, 2008 9:13 AM, Joanne M. Despres <jdespres at merriam-webster.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: New word? / technical term?
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> Having had a little experience editing radio scripts, I can tell you
> that an "outro" is the concluding paragraph of the script.  The term
> is formed by analogy with "intro."
>
> Joanne
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> On 11 Feb 2008, at 20:44, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26149/sound-studio-monbot%3a-bookend-audio
> >
> > [P]lugin adds an -intro_ and [an] _outro_ to an audio [file].
> >
> > I'm not hip enough to this stuff to know what an "outro" is.
> >
> > -Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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