So there´s this brand of diet frozen meals called Michelina´s Lean Gourmet. Remember when we blogged about malamanteaus? Here´s the link.
I think Michelina´s is trying to make some malamanteaus on the insides of their cardboard boxes, but... I don´t think they get it. I don´t think they get how these are supposed to work.
Here are some good malamanteaus:
- spork
- skort
- Brangelina
- blog
- liger
- muppet
- smog
- televangelist
- WiFi
Here are some bad ones:
I will continue to post these as I find them, because they´re terrible.
The meals are delicious and cheap; their advertising... is low budget.
2 Response to I don´t think they get it.
I tell people that I speak american and not english and they agree right away but do they think about it? What a culture we live in where everything has to be shrunk down to meet the attention of span of soundbites but soon that won't be good enough. A little lite reading for the mind, haha. Readers Digest still sells amazingly well.
Thankgah for Readers Digest, huh? Well, language generally evolves in the direction of efficiency and simplification, but I´m too much of a romantic to really embrace efficiency so fully--linguistic or otherwise.
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