oversouling

[Tom Zurinskas]

Yes.  She oversouled the song.  Too much soul.  Too many vocal rifs.  that word sounds like "oversold" which she she also did.  She oversold it because she oversouled it.


Tom Zurinskas, from Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 8.
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: James Harbeck
> Subject: oversouling
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> A word new to me that I think has a decent chance of cresting in the
> discourse for a while: oversouling.
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> What is it? Something to do with new age-y stuff and astral
> projection? More like young age-y stuff and big-screen projection, at
> least for its most recent salient example: Christina Aguilera's
> excessive ornamentation when "singing" "the national anthem" at the
> Stuporbowl. See
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-eskow/christina-aguilera-and-th_b_819979.html
> for the current vector.
>
> James Harbeck.
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