Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:11 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!"
>
> Translated Into BE:
>
> "These strips made me fall completely in love with them!"
>
> Why couldn't they have used,
>
> "These strips completely opened my nasal passages!"
>
> as they used to do? More dumbing-down?
>

Cause if they are the strips I'm thinking of, they _don't_ completely
open my nasal passages?

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