New KFC ad mocks McDonald's, features stupid grammar mistake.
It's in one of the bullet points. Got it, Grammar Cunt?
Ad agency: Ogilvy, Sydney (Did you fire a proofreader?)
Previously: Is this the greatest typo of all time?
posted by copyranter @ 10:15 AM
16 Comments:
It's the homophone, right? Tut tut.
I don't want to be a cunt about it, but I also see an extra space and a superfluous comma.
I can't believe that's professional work from Ogilvy. Looks like a first year student project.
Ah, "complimented" instead of "complemented."
Got it, Copyranter. Thanks for mentioning me in your post. Now, everyone knows the Grammar Cunt.
I hope you won't forget to plug my memoir when it comes out at the beginning of next year. I will send you a signed copy.
If you are in fact real, and you actually write a memoir, I will indeed plug the shit out of it, GC.
Hello Cunt,
can you please explain to me the proper use/misuse of memoir/memoirs.
You just wrote:
"I hope you won't forget to plug my memoir, bla! bla! bla!"
While in a previous post:
"I've been busy putting the finishing touches on my memoirs."
Some gentle ribbing:
"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."
(Dorothy Parker)
Shouldn't there be a hyphen in "hand-breaded"? Otherwise, they are breading hands, aren't they?
TheFontCunt hates the typography on this ad. Also.
Ha--You've got to hire a proofreader first to have one to fire.
@Anonymous 1:01 PM - No, because "hand breaded" isn't modifying anything. If it said "Hand breaded nipplenuggets in store," then, yes, add a hyphen.
And ummm, I'm almost certain the use of "Complemented" is correct here. Complement with an E means to complete something, bring it to perfection. Compliment with an I means to praise or admire. You know, that thing you do when you wanna bag the hot idiot.
If hand breaded isn't modifying anything, then it seems pretty meaningless. Why add it?
I must admit all this "how things are done shit" in food advertising leaves me a bit cold. I mean do I really give a fuck if some guy on minimum wage is "breading" my dead meat? Actually.....I probably want a machine breaded it....on reflection. My favorite/worst is "Steel cut oats": I do NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK WHAT METAL IS USED TO CUT MY CEREAL GRAIN.
The colons should not be there. One is seamlessly continued so it shouldn't have a colon. The other ought to be a period or wtf. Hand breaded is NOT hyphenated because it's not functioning as a compound adjective. And yes there shouldn't be a comma in the first bullet. There's also a spacing discrepancy between the top and bottom of the bullets. Otherwise, this qualifies as grand old trash. That is all.
@ t.P. Rattler
The 'Syllable-Laden Prattling' blog's content set in reverse type, makes it extremely difficult to read your [Unedited] [Unresearched] Thoughts on stuff...
... you should know better!
@Monster. Zero point zero. It's spelled "compliment" on the ad in question, nutsack.
Also, you're completely wrong about "hand breaded" Anonymous is correct, hand-breaded is what we Americans do to chicken to make it unhealthy. Google the spelling.
"Hand breaded in store" entails a KFC employee covering their hand in flour and plunging it into a deep fryer.
@Eamon - My bad. "Compliment" IS spelled with an I in the ad. Also: I'm a chick, so it's vagsack to you, nutsack.
And no way, bro, I stand by the no hyphen in "hand breaded." You don't have to take my word for it, but maybe you'll take Gardner's Modern American Usage's word: If two or more consecutive words make sense only when understood together as an adjective modifying a noun that follows, those words (excluding the noun) should be hyphenated.
Lookit, the ad blows, let's just agree to that. Piss-poor grammar (see what I just did there?) or not.
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