[Ads-l] television ads for SALES
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 30 14:02:58 UTC 2021
A "major [sic] motion picture" is now likely to be a "[major] motion
picture event."
I also seem to remember "[multi-] part television event.'
JL
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 5:51 PM Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> One almost never sees/hears an ad on TV for a "sale." It's always a
> "sales event." I suppose the word "sale" strikes Madison Avenue as
> declasse--like a rummage sale or a fire sale--whereas "event" implies
> something noteworthy and exceptional.
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