I was watching some TV and saw this commercial; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqtvVfa0VqI"]YouTube - Heavenly Gain - It's Gooder I thought it was weird. I looked it up and they did mean to say gooder. Then I found this: http://pittsburghthoughts.blogspirit.com/archive/2011/01/13/gain-and-gooder.html "to Gain: I am witting to express my disgust with your use of the made up term, "gooder." You should be ashamed of yourselves. Who do you think you're appealing to, 8 year olds? This perversion of the English language is unacceptable and you should immediately cease and desist and issue an apology. Why not communicate in grunts and groans next? I'm sure your patrons would think it was a blast. You may turn your back on your social responsibility but I will do everything within my power to denounce you and your tactics to others by asking them if they really need to patronize a product advertised by people that have no respect for them or the English lanquage. They wrote back: Thanks for writing. Thanks for your comments and concern. We chose to use the word Good’er for a dramatic effect. This was an attempt to play off of the expression “Have a Good Morning”. We believe that families and companies should be doing all they can to promote education. The process of doing laundry can often be a boring, monotonous process. The Gain team is hoping to make this process just a little bit more fun, and this is often demonstrated in the advertising. Mary Gain Team Finally I wrote: Perverting the English language is fun? Please recognize your place in the world, you sell soap. Soap is in itself a marvelous thing, there is no need to embellish its properties or effects. Don't try to make it hip by obfuscating our already decreasing ability to communicate with one another, in short we don't need dumbed down by a soap company. You need to appeal to the better segments of your target audience not the worst. I don't know if I'm crazy, if they're crazy or why I give a fuck. But somewhere deep down it offends me that they can foist this kind of garbage on the public in the name of making their product "funner." Gene" Can you believe this person? How many of you feel this way about the commercial?
I like using Gain...but I like Tide better. I hope Good'er doesn't become part of our everyday language...as if we don't butcher the english language enough...
i didn't even hear it the first time. i think it would have been better if he had said "good mornings are even gooder" instead of "bill's mornings are even gooder." that way you can tell it's a play on words and not just terrible grammar. i think that person should have been more disgusted with the commercial's soundtrack than its grammar.
I've seen that commercial but I honestly never paid attention to anything but the Warrant song and the fact that the narrator's voice sounds ever so vaguely like Garfield's. Usually I'm watching something on the DVR and just FF through commercials, otherwise I totally zone out or get up to get a drink or go pee. I NEVER pay attention to commercials, they're a total waste of resources on me. In fact, they tend to have the opposite effect particularly if I find the commercial stupid/annoying/aired too often I will completely boycott the product even if it was something I'd originally considered buying. But I digress. I occasionally make up words or use fictional variations of a real word, or use the wrong word entirely for comedic (arbitrary) effect. I see no harm, stupid's already out there and you can't fix it. Hopefully more of the population is like me than not, and won't pay any attention to the commercial anyway
i usually pause my tv till i have enough time built up in order to fast forward through the commercials but i did manage to see this one....and i did not even notice the language or grammar used..one of my favorite hosts on cbc1 is always getting 'corrected' by listeners when he uses or misuses a word....i think its funny..
^^^haha I do that too sometimes, or when I'm really stoned I tend to replay certain things over and over in slow mo to get a better look and I lose track of time really fast... I only hate when people misuse words when they're obliviously () already being pretentious and trying too hard to sound smart, otherwise I let it slide as an honest mistake. Although commonly misused phrases really irk me - "all of the sudden," "could of/would of," "a myriad of," "for all intensive purposes," etc... GAH
I was actually trying to get the thread to go in the way of how that person reacted. I think its extremely ludicrous... Someone getting that upset because they wanted to play with words. Get off your pedestal. >_< I thought the commercial was funny, and now I will try buying gain instead of tide.
