For those in the unknown, it is a software that helps you...(adults mostly, cuz you can teach a kid anything and the kid will learn it. I wonder if anyone has tried doing this before as a social experiment. You know, talk to a kid using gibberish to refer to basic words like food, chair, etc. and nonsense grammar to make sentences. Then send him off to school and videotape him asking for permission to use the bathroom!!! Ok...where was I?)...learn a new language. Now this might seem like a fairly common thing.
Except, something struck me as strange.
The entire ad is in English. Right from the letters on the screen, to the narration, and to the supposedly satisfied customers talking. Everyone speaks English.
Huh...Rosetta Stoners...what the hell???
If I am to be convinced that this is a powerful software that works then I want to see some conventional people speaking unconventional languages with thick accents. I am convinced easily and I expect at least this much.
The butt-clenchers amongst you might say, “But stupid Ro, that would seem so fake!”
To which I would reply, “Shut up butt-clenchers, I know in all probability the people talking would not be actual customers, but don’t you expect to see people drinking coffee in a coffee ad, people walking down shopping aisles after slimming down in a weight-loss ad and people actually talking on the phone in a 1-900 ad? Do you think those are all real customers? Do you really think hot girls are waiting for someone just like you to call? (They are not! I just know...lets leave it at that). Don’t you still expect a visual demonstration of the product?”
In the ad people go on about how well the software works and how easily they were able to learn a new language. But everyone talks in English. That is bad marketing. This is what I want to see...
1) A blue-eyed beach blonde chic talking in Swahili
2) A black guy speaking Hindi
3) An Asian lady speaking Arabic
Don’t tell me you won’t trust this software more if you see the above three on TV!
And since I am in a giving mood, here is another idea. If this doesn’t convince you to buy it, I don’t know what would!
Click on the figure or the rabbit gets it!
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It can also be used to interpret secret postscripts that talk about fake prowess in hockey and measuring contests :D
Hahaha...those were the days! :)
I wonder how many know what "the clown is the Mule" comes from. Good book.
Totally Anon. Foundation has been my favourite book for a very long time and still is!
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