Re: Did they really mean what it says?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>

>
> >>In my travels I found this gem of an advertising malapropism on the
> >>bottom of the Toshiba support web page. Great example of how not to say it.
> >>
> >>"Protect your PC from Microsoft."
> >
> > But that's not what it's saying at all. It is obvious:
> >
> > - The text "Protect your PC" is an image. Its color is red.
> > - The text "from Microsoft" is an image. Its color is black.
>
> Image-schmimage.  How the words are rendered has no bearing on the
> issue, which was that the person who wrote the words didn't bother to
> read them carefully enough.  If they had, they'd have noticed that it
> could be interpreted more than one way.
>

It's a real reach, in my opinion, to get that interpretation from it. What I
get, David, is that some of you cannot tolerate a different point of view
without getting nasty.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.granatedit.com





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