Do business with less limits

(Email Removed) (howard richler) wrote on 10 Nov 2003:
[nq:1]Langauge prescriptivists in Canada are going ballistic over a new slogan by Bell Telephone: "Do business with less limits." ... Foundation unleashed a slogan "More life, less limits" and I'm wondering if anybody comeented that it is technically grammatically incorrect.[/nq]
Nobody in the USA cares about such trifles. Look at the

[nq:1]Langauge prescriptivists in Canada are going ballistic over a new slogan by Bell Telephone: "Do business with less limits." ... Foundation unleashed a slogan "More life, less limits" and I'm wondering if anybody comeented that it is technically grammatically incorrect.[/nq]
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
The solecism is almost certainly intentional, just as was the Wins

howard richler filted:
[nq:1]Langauge prescriptivists in Canada are going ballistic over a new slogan by Bell Telephone: "Do business with less limits." ... Foundation unleashed a slogan "More life, less limits" and I'm wondering if anybody comeented that it is technically grammatically incorrect.[/nq]
Some Americans would be less shocked by "less limits" than by "do business"...that's a e

[nq:1]Some Americans would be less shocked by "less limits" than by "do business"...that's a euphemism for defecation..r[/nq]
There used to be a floor cleaner marketed here with the slogan "The big job cleaner". Presumably the advertising people didn't realise that, for at least some people, "big jobs" are the result of doing business.

Peter Moylan (Email Removed)

On 9 Nov 2003 23:40:55 GMT, CyberCypher
[nq:2]Langauge prescriptivists in Canada are going ballistic over a new ... wondering if anybody comeented that it is technically grammatically incorrect.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nobody in the USA cares about such trifles. Look at the language of its CEO.[/nq]
It isn't the job of the CEO (sic) to set a standard for language. It is *** to say that nobody in th

Charles Riggs (Email Removed) wrote on 10 Nov 2003:
[nq:1]It isn't the job of the CEO (sic) to set a standard for language. It is *** to say that ... views, or at least the way you express them, for I know very well you are not an ignorant man.[/nq]
You are taking me too seriously again, Charles. It's just a sardonic little joke. That's why I called W the CEO instead of the President.

On 10 Nov 2003 04:13:48 GMT, CyberCypher
[nq:2]It isn't the job of the CEO (sic) to set ... I know very well you are not an ignorant man.[/nq]
[nq:1]You are taking me too seriously again, Charles. It's just a sardonic little joke. That's why I called W the CEO instead of the President.[/nq]
I knew CEO was a joke, but why confuse people? OK, maybe the term is universal enough and "Chief

OK, excuse my ignorance, but is the slogan grammatically incorrect because one should say '... less limits than x': where 'x' might be 'before Bill C 295 was passed', for instance?
And is 'Winston tastes good..' wrong because 'good' is an adjective?

Grammar was never my strong point.
Thanks,
Dori

[nq:1]OK, excuse my ignorance, but is the slogan grammatically incorrect because one should say '... less limits than x': where 'x' might be 'before Bill C 295 was passed', for instance?[/nq]
"Less" and "fewer" behave like "much" and "many."
Many limits. Fewer limits. (Countable things.)
Much water. Less water. (Uncountable quantity.)

I think the confusion has arisen because t

Charles Riggs (Email Removed) wrote on 10 Nov 2003:
[nq:1]I knew CEO was a joke, but why confuse people? OK, maybe the term is universal enough and "Chief Executive" is well-known enough, in and outside the States, that no-one here would confuse the two, but perhaps not.[/nq]
[nq:2]In any case, I don't expect there to be any ... there seems to be no way to stop the trend.[/nq]
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