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  1. Inside Today

    March 12, 2009 by dafyd

    As a long-time Radio 4 listener, it’s fascinating to get a glimpse behind the scenes of the Today programme…

    One might argue that a viral video stops being viral when the programme it is promoting has to promote the video itself… Still, fun though.

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  2. Less grammar. More driving pleasure.

    August 24, 2008 by dafyd

    I just caught this BMW advert, narrated by Donald Sutherland, during the Grand Prix:

    Pretty advert, sure, but it’s that last card, the tagline, that annoys me. Any GCSE student – let alone a copywriter at a major agency, working on a huge campaign for a massive client – could tell you that you can’t say “less emissions”. It should be “fewer emissions”, as “emissions” is a countable noun. I’d be perfectly happy with “less gunk emitted”. Even “less gas” would be fine. But absolutely not “less emissions”.

    That said, Fowler says that

    less can be idiomatically used with plural nouns when these denote something closer to an amount than a numerical quantity, as with distances, periods of time, ages, and sums of money: less than 5 miles to go | less than six weeks | children less than three years old | less than £100

    In this context, I suppose, “emissions” is denoting the total amount of gunk being emitted, so this could, feasibly, be correct. I’m not convinced, though – it just seems sloppy to me, using ungrammatical English to fit the meter of the tagline.

    The Engine Room (a blog about language, not cars) has an interesting discussion about the same thing…

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  3. WALL-E: You know, for kids

    May 1, 2008 by dafyd

    One of the films I’m most looking forward to this summer is WALL-E. Sure, Iron Man looks awesome, Speed Racer looks like, well, speed, and The Dark Knight will be pretty much unmissable. But WALL-E is just, well, you’ll see:

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  4. You know it’s gone to far when…

    April 11, 2008 by dafyd

    …the Channel 4 News gets rickrolled:

    Bizarre. See also this terribly earnest BBC News report…

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  5. Debate hijack

    April 2, 2008 by dafyd

    Not entirely sure what’s going on here… but it’s worth a watch.

    Sergey Brin, utterly bemused, in the background – quality.

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  6. Danny Boy

    March 17, 2008 by dafyd

    For St Patrick’s Day, “Danny Boy”, performed by the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker. And why not?

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  7. Teenage Mighty Mutant Morphin’ Ninja Power Turtle Rangers

    March 13, 2008 by dafyd

    Really weird flashback to cITV, after school, 15 years ago…

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  8. The Waldo Ultimatum

    March 8, 2008 by dafyd

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    Heh – in America, they call Wally Waldo. Who knew?

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  9. He’s back

    January 29, 2008 by dafyd

    Oh yes:

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    Thursday 7 February 2008, 9.00pm, BBC One. Be there.

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  10. The World’s Favourite Airline

    October 6, 2007 by dafyd

    Silverjet, which is, apparently, a luxury airline, has released this is awfully clever pastiche of a legendary TV advert.

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    If you’re reading this in a feedreader, or in Facebook or the like, you’ll have to click through to the actual post. Make sure you do, though – it’s totally worth it.

    Only problem I have with it is that it makes me think of British Airways. People will call it “that British Airways advert”. Surely that spoils the point somewhat…?

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