Engineering amazing

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From the colorful label of So-Be Elixir Orange Carrot:

"Pow! Only amazing happens when orange meets carrot. Loaded with
antioxidant vitamins A+C+E so you can fight the gnarly and feel the love.
Cuz our Love is strong. Naturally sweetened with sugar."

All carrots are orange, but this is a mixture of juices, not colors.  Note
the nominal "gnarly" as well. And the bonus assurance that Sugar is Strong
Love cuz it's natural.

JL


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > CNN said yesterday that you might want to "get your sexy back" by
> losing
> > > > ten pounds "in time for summer."
> > > >
> > > > Then some tanned, young, trim guy with surfer hair appeared to tell
> you in
> > > > detail how to "get your sexy back."
> > >
> > > Perhaps you missed the memo, Jon. Justin Timberlake was "bringing sexy
> > > back" in
> > > 2006.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexyback
> >
> > JT's song is called "SexyBack." The CNN people were unmistakably
> > pronouncing it as two words ("get your *sexy* back"), and they made it
> > clear that "your sexy" was something you used to have before you made a
> hog
> > of yourself.
>
> The first line of the song is "I'm bringin' sexy back." Any reference to
> the
> return of said "sexy" is very likely a conscious allusion to the song.
>
> For a discussion of the syntactic peculiarity of the title, see:
>
> http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2007/02/im_bringin_synt.html
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005333.html
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1104
>
> --bgz
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