The Hoipolloi Podcast is fully up and running. And in our first proper podcast we are launching a new series called Stefanie Muellers Word of the Week!
Steffi is Hoipolloi’s Associate Director. A woman of many talents, she designs all of Hoipolloi’s productions, performs in most of them and helps Shon out with directing. Now, via our new Podcast and this Blog, she’s going to be showcasing another talent, reigning supreme as the Queen of Vocabulary.
Steffi is Swiss and speaks more languages than I care to acknowledge (embarrassed as I am that my appalling schoolboy French is as close as I’ve come to escaping my Anglophone comfort zone.) Perhaps this is why she’s so interested in curious-sounding or obscure English words, of which she has amassed a rather large collection. Some are fairly common words, which Steffi hadn’t heard before but which appealed to her immediately. Others fit less easily into one’s quotidian idiom.
The precise purpose of this assemblage of semantic sensations has never been entirely clear. Although in the Podcast, Steffi explains that there’s a fun game to be played, whereby you give someone a word and they have to guess or invent its definition. Eventually you try to work all these newly-created nonsenses into your everyday vocabulary. (Edward Lear would have been proud.)
Simon and I are super-excited about our new Podcast-making equipment and we’ll be working hard to bring you aural treats as often as possible. Simon will be boarding a plane in the next few hours as he travels to Australia to join Hugh Hughes. Keep your ears peeled for another Podcast, coming soon from Down Under!
Click here to download Hoipolloi Podcasts via iTunes.
Steffi is Hoipolloi’s Associate Director. A woman of many talents, she designs all of Hoipolloi’s productions, performs in most of them and helps Shon out with directing. Now, via our new Podcast and this Blog, she’s going to be showcasing another talent, reigning supreme as the Queen of Vocabulary.
Steffi is Swiss and speaks more languages than I care to acknowledge (embarrassed as I am that my appalling schoolboy French is as close as I’ve come to escaping my Anglophone comfort zone.) Perhaps this is why she’s so interested in curious-sounding or obscure English words, of which she has amassed a rather large collection. Some are fairly common words, which Steffi hadn’t heard before but which appealed to her immediately. Others fit less easily into one’s quotidian idiom.
The precise purpose of this assemblage of semantic sensations has never been entirely clear. Although in the Podcast, Steffi explains that there’s a fun game to be played, whereby you give someone a word and they have to guess or invent its definition. Eventually you try to work all these newly-created nonsenses into your everyday vocabulary. (Edward Lear would have been proud.)
Simon and I are super-excited about our new Podcast-making equipment and we’ll be working hard to bring you aural treats as often as possible. Simon will be boarding a plane in the next few hours as he travels to Australia to join Hugh Hughes. Keep your ears peeled for another Podcast, coming soon from Down Under!
Click here to download Hoipolloi Podcasts via iTunes.
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