Dear Burger King

Dear Burger King, I’ve written before about your ill advised advertisements and the lack of judgement shown by both those  who create your ad campaigns and by those who approve them.  Your company shows an appalling insensitivity and astounding lack of common sense. Your latest ad, showing a Hindu Goddess floating atop a hamburger simply [...]

You say manure, I say mist

I was just reading an amusing article about ad campaigns that have tangled with linguistic borders. What sounds good in one language may not translate well into another. Verbatim translations often miss the nuances of local slang or twists on words as Clairol discovered many years ago. Clairol had a big selling product with their [...]