[Ads-l] television ads for SALES
Marc Sacks
msacksg at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 30 18:14:09 UTC 2021
Donovan's old song
On the firefly platform on Sunny Goodge Street
Violent hash-smoker shook a chocolate machine
Involved in an eating scene
seems relevant here. A few decades later it would be an eating event, if he
could get the rhyme down.
Marc Sacks
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:03 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> A "major [sic] motion picture" is now likely to be a "[major] motion
> picture event."
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> I also seem to remember "[multi-] part television event.'
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> JL
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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 5:51 PM Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > 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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