Saturday, February 26, 2005

An Oldie, but Goodie!

Remember how much fun it was to Babelize things? Of course you do! So I took various product slogans and massacred them for the hell of it.

Let's examine Bounty's little slogan. "The quilted quicker picker upper." Simple and to the point. They can't mangle that much. Or can they?

After translation: "But the short hour of e, the man of Scozia of the production of the
fast alcohol the fact that is not great beginning of intelligence and
- the returns are of you of the leather."

Uh..? Guess they can.

Hmm.. I wonder what they would do to Maxwell House's "Good to the last drop."

A.T.: "The escapes and are a good amortization."

"Amortization"? I pride myself on knowing rather large words. Not that I often use them. I just like knowing them. I have no idea what amortization means. So I looked it up.

From m-w.com:
Main Entry: am·or·ti·za·tion
Pronunciation: "a-m&r-t&-'zA-sh&n also &-"mor-
Function: noun
1 : the act or process of amortizing
2 : the result of amortizing

Well, that certainly cleared things up, didn't it? Let's move on..

Last, but not least, we have Rice Krispies' "Snap, crackle, pop!"

A.T: "It is free and the noises that are the noises and to a healthful width
eight of water N,"

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. And, yes, it ended with a comma.

Have fun!

3 Things You Say:

At 11:25 PM, Blogger Erratic Prophet said...

Yes, of course! Silly me.

I should've just asked The Boy. He might've known.

 
At 7:37 AM, Blogger Kim said...

Oh hell, I'm going to be wasting way too much time now....

 
At 8:14 PM, Blogger glomgold said...

I get about 20 amortization/home mortgage spam mails a day. I'm not sure from where these people got the idea that I have money. Would that it were true!

 

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