Ipod Shuffle - Put some music on!

Loving the new Ipod Shuffle ad! Clever music (ok I may be slightly bias… the lyrics are French), clever concept, clever catch phrase! I’ve always wondered why Apple products are so popular despite receiving (at times) negative publicity. Perhaps because their products look good and their marketing awesome? What do you reckon guys?
UPDATE - 24th January 2007: I just noticed that [...]

5 things you should know about me…

 
I got tagged by my good blogging friend Katia @ ¡Hola! Oi! Hi!. Here we go…
1. My biggest passion in life is languages! I am fluent in French, English and Italian and also speak a little bit of Spanish and German. I am so lucky to live in London where I can meet, and have [...]

Seth Godin, Advertising and Fashion Faux-Pas

 
Seth Godin says that companies should spent an enormous amount of their time and budget to focus on becoming ‘the’.
I say that companies should stop using so much in advertisements the pronoun ‘you’. That would be a fashion faux-pas.

Iphone commercial! EXCLUSIVE!

 
Video courtesy of Cyril Attias of Olgivy, Paris

Let’s play a game…

 
I recently came across the word ABSQUATULATE. As a linguist, if I don’t know the meaning of a word, I try to understand its grammatical and semantic structure before taking a guess on its meaning.
Let’s play a little game…
What’s the most original and convincing definition you can come up with for the word ABSQUATULATE.  The [...]