One person's commentary on how sloppy people have become with the spoken and written word. It all started with one commercial having glaringly bad grammar. I thought I would run out of material if I posted weekly. I was wrong. There are advertisers that need to go to grammar school.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
You can't have the same grammar as me.
It is spring sale time, you know, Easter-time sales, and with the arrival those new sales there are new advertisements that did not quite pass the grammar test. The one that caught my ear, yes my ear, is the one that is advertising the Volkswagen Springtober event. A young family is admiring a new VW. The neighbor/friend says "You can’t have the same car as me." This is bad on two accounts. First, he obviously cannot have the same car unless they are car-sharing. Secondly, the sentence should have been: "You can't have the same model of car as I have. " He also could have said "You can't buy the same model as I just bought." Good Grammar; That would just be weird.
Labels:
advertising,
grammar,
Pronoun,
Volkswagen
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