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LaBelleDameSansMerci 12-03-2006 07:48 PM

Cheekily Misspelled Product Names
 
Is it just me, or do other people get pissed off by deliberately misspelled product names? It's like they're TRYING to make people illiterate, or pander to people who are too dumb to spell it in the first place. "Hey, we're stupid, just like you!" or "Hey, we're even dumber than you!" Some examples of products I've seen with misspelled names are "Rice Krispies" (though that's not as bad for me because I grew up with them), "Double Stuf Oreos," and "Reddi-Bilt" barbeques. The barbecues are the worst, since they're completely misspelled and I had to walk by them every day at work, and they were glaringly obvious. Put me in a bad mood all day. If I was Prime Minister, I'd make a law against such misspelling.

Pyre 12-03-2006 08:05 PM

It's a government conspiracy. End this now or they will silence you. . .

PersephoneX 12-03-2006 08:27 PM

o.O...um, wow...you blew my mind with this one...

LaBelleDameSansMerci 12-03-2006 08:37 PM

Sorry... :S Or is it a good thing? Why'd I blow your mind?

Does anyone else know of any other misspelled product names?

BlackButterfly 12-03-2006 09:11 PM

It's done for a few reasons, most of them due to marketing and legalities:

1) To make a name more memorable (hey--even if it pissed you off, you remembered it, right?)

2) The alternate, correctly-spelled name was already copyrighted/trademarked by another company

3) The alternate, correctly-spelled name sounds generic/boring

4) (insert other reasons that I don't know/can't think of right now because it's late...)

...but am I making any sense?

Crying_Crimson_Tears 12-08-2006 09:18 PM

BB you made sense. I don't really care. Sometimes I think that the misspellings can be cute sometimes.

*Runs off before she gets smacked*

om3gag0th666 12-08-2006 09:23 PM

Misspellings deserve a swift death.

Godslayer Jillian 12-08-2006 09:30 PM

We have to give misspellings some credit.
If it were not for misspellings, I don't think Shakespeare would have coined the word weird.

om3gag0th666 12-08-2006 09:43 PM

Who cares if it defies the rules? Shakespeare also coined 'alone.'

Still, misspellings are not all bad, we get variants that way, and that's how langauge evolves. Bad spellings are just a good example of memetics.

roserougesang 12-08-2006 10:37 PM

I'm really confused now. XP

Quote:

Originally Posted by om3gag0th666
Misspellings deserve a swift death.

Then.....
Quote:

Originally Posted by om3gag0th666
Still, misspellings are not all bad, we get variants that way, and that's how langauge evolves. Bad spellings are just a good example of memetics.

Which one is your genuine opinion?

gnulinuxman 12-09-2006 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by om3gag0th666
Misspellings deserve a swift death.

And how do you inteld to kill words?
Quote:

Originally Posted by om3gag0th666
Who cares if it defies the rules? Shakespeare also coined 'alone.'

Still, misspellings are not all bad, we get variants that way, and that's how langauge evolves. Bad spellings are just a good example of memetics.

Oh, OK, never mind. I guess that plan is canceled... *laughs*

Crying_Crimson_Tears 12-09-2006 08:41 AM

Some misspellings do deserve a swift death, some are okay. I mean without them, where would the English language be??? We'd still be speaking Ye Olde English.

BlackButterfly 12-27-2006 06:32 PM

Yeah, haha, and spelling "old" with that damned "e"!

A lot of the misspellings that have evolved languages tend to come from actually mis-hearing a foreign word and then saying it incorrectly. American English, for one, has TONS of them, although for some reason I am drawing nothing but blanks right now, damn my eyes... it's probably because I'm hungry. ::wanders off to fridge::

SKot 12-28-2006 12:27 PM

One thing is for sure:

Anything that spells 'Kwality' with a 'K' is definitely top notch, no doubt about it.

--SKot

Mir 12-28-2006 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnulinuxman
And how do you inteld to kill words?Oh, OK, never mind. I guess that plan is canceled... *laughs*


hahaha. Awesome.

Graveyard.Crow 12-28-2006 04:29 PM

It is to make you remember it. In fact I went through a magazine test ones. They told me to look through a few pages and look at some ads. Then they told me which one did I remember. I named one and they showed me that the picture for the add actually had some weird abnormality that I didn't notice but it made it stick in my mind. The woman in the add had 6 fingers.

Clockwork 01-07-2007 03:32 AM

Myes, I've heard of that ad trick - adding something abnormal so it sticks in your mind when you skim past it. Really is clever, in a creepy way <_<

But oh. Misspelled product names. How I detest them. Especially the c's being substituted with k's, "olde" spellings, dropping the E in extreme, and of course the obligatory backwards facing S or N for products aimed at young children. It's so gimmicky I want to smash those things to bits with mine olde mallet.

maggot 01-07-2007 04:27 AM

You bumped an ancient thread, that's a no-no. :P


But while I'm here, I have to say: Never insult the c/k substitution or I will attack you. And it will hurt. =O

Godslayer Jillian 01-07-2007 09:37 AM

Haha, it's only a no-no when one has not much to say about it.

Delicate_Torture 01-07-2007 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maggot
You bumped an ancient thread, that's a no-no. :P


But while I'm here, I have to say: Never insult the c/k substitution or I will attack you. And it will hurt. =O


Shouldn't that be 'attakk'?

Clockwork 01-07-2007 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maggot
You bumped an ancient thread, that's a no-no. :P


But while I'm here, I have to say: Never insult the c/k substitution or I will attack you. And it will hurt. =O

I know about bumping. It was just a little over a week old - hardly ancient IMO =/


And uhm. I guess if you like the k's for c's so, I'll go a little easy on them (I've always thought c was a useless letter, even if the misspellings annoy me.) However I draw the line at 'krazy.' I just hate that word.

Circle V 01-07-2007 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maggot
You bumped an ancient thread, that's a no-no. :P

I thought that making a new thread with the same topic as an existing one was a no-no...

maggot 01-07-2007 08:43 PM

Lol, both are no-nos!

And 'krazy' is stupid, aye. but generally the replacement is uberk0re. :P

Okkupation...
Oktagon...
Enakt.

They're all awesome! I think I've made my very weak point. :D


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