Wednesday, January 30, 2008

thoughts on ads

When I look at the Jack and Coke ad, I see that the author intends for people to stop after reading Jack Daniel's no. 7 Whiskey. He uses the wrong pronunciation, but I think that the effect is still made.
In the Cabella's ad, I find it interesting that in the ad it states "typos do occur." I guess this is an easy way to cover up mistakes, because it seems as if the person who wrote this ad was comma happy.
In the Training Table ad, it appears that the writer has been taught that if more than one item is used to describe something a comma is needed. I feel that the mistakes in this are just a lack of proper education.
I see no need for the semicolon in the money making ad. The only reason I can see the writer using it is to separate two ideas. The problem is that the ideas go together. At least I hope that is what is implied.
The Marie Calendar's ad is missing the word "and." I think this was done on purpose, but I really can't see how "and" would really change the effect of the phrase. Maybe they were trying to save money by having one less word.

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