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Re: PG: Hackers and Painters
Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> writes at 22:34 15-May-2003 -0400:
> All brands of ice cream are not created equal!
Do little languages permit poetic license?
A PR firm creating a slogan might play a misdirection game with "All men
are created equal" (which has high recognition rate and positive
associations), to give "All ___ are [surprise!] *not* created equal."
They wouldn't win any advertising industry awards for such a slogan, but
it's still an intentional and perfectly valid use of the language.
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