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.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Episode 58: Stop me if you have heard this before.
Taylor Kia is a Toledo Area car dealer who advertises that they will give you $4500 for a new car "even if you've been turned down before." The owner/spokesman for the dealership is doing just fine. Evidently the phrase wouldn't fit in the allotted screen space if they use proper grammar. Hmm. "Even if you've been previously denied." Their version has 38 characters versus 36 characters with the proper grammar.
Labels:
advertising,
Automobile,
grammar,
Kia,
preposition,
Taylor
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