Sightings of note from around the Interwebs.
From Twitter:
"Wild Mountain Gourmet produces the highest quality mustard and sauces that will enhance the flavor and goodness of every table it touches." Um, I don't eat table. (Also: it?)
Chez Papa Restaurant: "Where the food meets sexiness." I'm trying to picture this steamy encounter, and failing.
From my spam folder, where the sexiness meets the poetry:
"Now you can take your pants off with pride."
"Accept some courage for your needs."
"BE THE MASTER OF THE NIGHT."
From my inbox, an email from Discover Card I didn't finish reading:
"Dear Sample A Sample."
From Brandweek, where homophones rain rein reign:
"The campaign embraces all the luxury queues that consumers are used to..." Have you hugged a line today?
From Sarah Palin's final speech as governor of Alaska:
"And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be Hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays." American apologetics? As Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times today, it "sounds like a cross between apologists and Dianetics." But American! So it's all good, right?
Nothing wrong with "apologetics", used properly - the practice of defence or vindication of a position. I've only really come across the term in a theological setting. But that sense doesn't seem to work in Palin's utterance.
(For some odd reason, it was really hard to post this comment - "We're sorry, we cannot accept this data" error! Even with all Javascript allowed in Firefox, it never showed the captcha thing.)
Posted by: John | July 29, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Not so much "odd English" as "unqualified copywriters" and "companies who don't feel it necessary to pay for copyediting."
Posted by: Ben Lukoff | July 29, 2009 at 09:36 PM
Looks like Palin is gonna be a lighting rod no matter what she does.
Posted by: Ned Stevens | October 11, 2009 at 08:09 PM