Ad Critiquing
So I just had some Papa John's Perfect Pan Pizza the other day. It was most delicious and filling to my stomach. The ad for the pizza said something like the following: "When I first tried Papa John's Perfect Pan Pizza I swore off all other deep dish pizzas. The second time I tried it I swore off swearing."
The first line of this add does a marvelous job of encouraging me to buy it. However, if we were to compare the two sentences in a manner that the SAT compares phrases (Water is to fish is like crap is to congress people)then we would have to conclude something different than pleasure from the pizza. In the first sentence they (A gender-neutral pronoun to avoid offending either gender. If you are still offended, please email me at candidbyu@gmail.com, and we will deal with your offense in a manner befitting your offendedness. Notice we did not say we would apologize. If you wish for us to apologize, you must first pay us $200.00.) state that they swore off all other deep dish pizzas, which makes you understand that 'swore off' means 'gave up', 'forsook', 'did never partake of that substance again'.
Using this same meaning for 'swore off' we must conclude that the person gave up swearing. This leads me to believe that the person gave up swearing off things because, the second they tried Papa Johns Perfect Pan Pizza' the second time they realized that it wasn't all that splendid and that in fact, other deep dish pizzas that they had previously sworn off were in fact better. Luckily, for Papa Johns that is, I didn't let this ad influence me and decided to try the pizza anyway.
The first line of this add does a marvelous job of encouraging me to buy it. However, if we were to compare the two sentences in a manner that the SAT compares phrases (Water is to fish is like crap is to congress people)then we would have to conclude something different than pleasure from the pizza. In the first sentence they (A gender-neutral pronoun to avoid offending either gender. If you are still offended, please email me at candidbyu@gmail.com, and we will deal with your offense in a manner befitting your offendedness. Notice we did not say we would apologize. If you wish for us to apologize, you must first pay us $200.00.) state that they swore off all other deep dish pizzas, which makes you understand that 'swore off' means 'gave up', 'forsook', 'did never partake of that substance again'.
Using this same meaning for 'swore off' we must conclude that the person gave up swearing. This leads me to believe that the person gave up swearing off things because, the second they tried Papa Johns Perfect Pan Pizza' the second time they realized that it wasn't all that splendid and that in fact, other deep dish pizzas that they had previously sworn off were in fact better. Luckily, for Papa Johns that is, I didn't let this ad influence me and decided to try the pizza anyway.
posted by CT at 9:56 PM
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