[Ads-l] "Live recorded"
Mark Mandel
markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 8 22:38:20 UTC 2022
Thanks, Dan. I don't have a problem with the expression, just wondered if
there was an equivalent I was missing out on.
Mark
On Sun, May 8, 2022, 4:38 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Like it or not, "live recorded" is the industry phrase used to contrast
> with "studio (recorded)", eg, a "live (recorded) album" v a "studio album".
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2022, 2:36 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From the WRTI app, for radio station WRTI 90.1 in Philadelphia and the
> > surrounding area; the descriptive crawl under NOW PLAYING (and still
> there
> > as I write this):
> >
> > The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
> > Join us on Sunday afternoons to hear our very own "Fabulous
> Philadelphians"
> > in live recorded concerts from Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
> >
> > "Live recorded" is a preposed adjective phrase corresponding to "recorded
> > live". But it looks like an oxymoron, which causes me to wonder if
> there's
> > any equivalent suitable for colloquial speech?
> >
> > Mark Mandel
>
>
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