WTF is this grammar, it should be "AS a cigarette should.
This is an advertisement of Winston cigarettes.
2007-12-16 21:41:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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This is a slippery slope.
"As" may have been grammatically correct 20 years ago. But the English language is constantly redefining itself, sometimes over English Teacher's dead bodies. This twenty year old advertisement was not considered grammatically correct when it was written, BUT it was a common usage. It STill is a common usage, and I expect that eventually it will be considered correct, the same way that a dangling preposition is now incorrect only in very formal writing situations. The sad truth.
If you want to blame it on someone, blame it on journalism. Newspapers write to their own rules (which are those of conciseness rather than clarity) and they sadly influence contemporary usage.
2007-12-20 15:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by maî 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The advertising worked. It apparently annoyed you enough to go online and post this. You probably won't forget about winston cigarettes because of this ad.
2007-12-17 05:50:14 · answer #2 · answered by john d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wanna see something creepy? It's an ad for Winston cigarettes by the Flintstones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c
2007-12-17 05:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell, that was BACK in the 70's....
How's that for improper sentence structure....Mister "I wanna be an English Teacher, but only OLD hags can bore children with English lessons"
I'll bet every English teacher is like MONK.....
Gnaw on that..
2007-12-17 05:53:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey they were speaking American not English.
2007-12-17 05:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by JUAN FRAN$$$ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It can go either way.. Like or AS
2007-12-17 05:50:10 · answer #6 · answered by lannette27 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋