Flower patterns from the 30’s
April 2, 2008 on 8:53 am | In conversations, entertainment |You know that commercial where Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk (yes, I had to look up their names) are talking about their new line of clothes at Target? I overheard Brandon lecturing the commercial last night.
Commercial: It’s like art nouveau flower patterns from the 30’s, but like how they used them in the 70’s?
Brandon: Who are they? That’s so ambiguous! Use the passive!
Now I ask you, doesn’t that make you envy me for having such a cool husband? One that’s more concerned about grammar than how lame the commercial is and how brilliant the creators of the “ironic” clothesline think they are?
He’s mine, ladies. All mine.
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Sorry, it’s just my backlash against the discouragement of the passive voice in English.
Comment by Brandon — April 2, 2008 #