More or less grammar …

Is it just us or has there been an increase in grammatical misuse in tag lines, advertisements, and TV commercials lately? As many of you know, we have been feuding with Hanes for a few years over their “lay-flat” collar ads – to no avail.

• Just wait’ll we get our grammar on you …
• Hot topic …
• On the radio …

Looks like we have a couple of new opponents to take on:

StriVectin

“MORE SCIENCE. LESS WRINKLES.” & “More science. Less eye lines.”

FORD

“MORE GO. LESS STOPS.”

In addition, a faithful follower writes,

“Ugh!  Have you seen the Mercedes commercial?! “More technology, less doors.” I’m hoping it’s really clever and I just don’t understand it. Surely the grammar couldn’t be that bad, could it?”

We encourage you to look back to our posts on the subject “Less” vs. “Fewer”.

• Limit less …
• Less is not always more …
• tbs, terribly bad syntax … very funny? 

Would these grammar goofs affect your buying decisions?

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tbs, terribly bad syntax … very funny?

This has been bugging us since the advertising campaign began a while ago. TBS, the cable channel, is perpetuating awful grammar with their slogan:

“more movie … less commercials.”

We caught this grammar gaffe during tonight’s showing of the wonderful movie The School of Rock.

We love the movie, however, it was an insult to our senses having this slogan displayed on the screen throughout. We went for the DVD.

Therefore, we are going to shamelessly steal from our earlier post: Less is not always more … and may continue to do so until correctness catches on.

OK, everybody repeat after us …

I will use “less” for amounts that cannot be counted as discrete items, such as water, sunshine, and money.

I will use “fewer” for numbers of items that can be counted as discrete items, such as drops of water, rays of sunshine, dollar bills, and … of course, commercials!

Get it? Got it. Good!

See our other previous post on this topic: Limit less …

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Limit less …

For years now, we have been fretting, along with a lot of you, over grocery stores’ blatant grammar goof in their express lane signs.

You know …

“15 Items or Less” instead of

“15 Items or Fewer”

Well, we are pleased to say that our local Randalls has solved this dilemma once and for all … and simply.

Here’s their solution:

“express  15 item limit”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU!

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Oh, the insanity …

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