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To: thecodont
"Don’t these Microsoft people do a grammar check on their ads?"

Maybe the same folks in charge of software validation do their spell-checks?

In all fairness, Apple's "Funnest iPod Ever" and "Think Different" were pretty grammatically incoherent too...
22 posted on 11/27/2009 12:15:18 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
In all fairness, Apple's "Funnest iPod Ever" and "Think Different" were pretty grammatically incoherent too...

It's possible (here I am granting Apple artistic license) that they meant "funnest" in an ironic sense, and "Think Different" as "Think [of something] Different" but I am being generous.

Apple might mean to say something in a cheeky sense, but Microsoft tends to say the same thing soberly, and ends up doing a pratfall.

A year or so ago, Apple had a "Sneak Peak" Web page of an upcoming software release, but someone wrote in with a grammar complaint, and it was corrected to read "Sneak Peek." They really should have known better to check the Web page before making it go live like that.

23 posted on 11/27/2009 12:24:51 PM PST by thecodont
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