[Ads-l] overtwerk

[Ben Zimmer]

I checked the podcast version of the show:

https://art19.com/shows/deadline-white-house/episodes/32c01331-cce4-4bac-9048-660929f906aa

At around 11:30 in the audio, Michael Schmidt of the New York Times says:

"Those things are hard to piece together, because I think there's some
thought that Stone may have been over-twerking publicly what he really
knew."

Schmidt likely meant "over-tweaking" (i.e., "overadjusting"), which would
make some sense given the context. Here's someone who came to the same
conclusion:

https://twitter.com/VincentWright/status/1053016493024251904
"Did Michael Schmidt just say 'over-twirking' instead of 'over-tweaking'?"


On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:23 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It seemed to mean "exaggerated," but what twerking has to do with it, I
> don't know.
>
> (He could have been twerking while exaggerating.)
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:07 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So in context, that means...
> > "Stone may have publicly *asserted more* than what he really knew"?
> > So *over-* is redundant with *more than*, eh? Sorta like
> > *misunderestimate*.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:25 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  _Deadline: White House_ (MSNBC) today:
> > >
> > > "Stone may have overtwerked publicly what he really knew."
> > >
> > >

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