Monthly Archives: April 2010

World Cup commercials part 2

By question | Published: April 28, 2010
A while back I wrote a post about some of the commercials that were starting to come out to get people excited about the upcoming World Cup.  As if we needed companies to get us excited about this!  Still, this latest crop of commercial has gotten me excited about the World Cup, and also makes [...]
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Professor opines on sarcasm punctuation

By question | Published: April 24, 2010
I’ve covered the sustained sarcasm saga here a couple times already, but I thought I would check in again because it seems things have taken a turn for the intellectual.  Geoffrey Nunberg is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.  And he’s got an opinion about sarcasm punctuation.  To quote him from [...]
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Don’t Messi with the best

By question | Published: April 7, 2010
When I reviewed a Pepsi World Cup commercial a few weeks back, I wrote that I couldn’t come up with a snarky nickname for Lionel Messi because he is just too badass.  If there was any doubt that he is the best player in the world, after his performance yesterday in the Champions League game [...]
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