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    What advertising slogan of the 1960s is reputed to have attracted the ire of America's English teachers for its apparent grammatical error (which it wasn't)? The product being advertised was a movie by a very well known director.

    Question #119281. Asked by ceetee. (Dec 12 10 4:58 AM)


    undudelike

    		Wild guess. I think I only now get it. Ha Ha.

    "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."

    http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic20522.html

    Dec 15 10, 4:40 PM
    ceetee

    		That's very clever reasoning and while I'd be prepared to concede the correctness of your answer, it wasn't the one I had in mind. Think of Alfred Hitchcock.

    Dec 15 10, 5:02 PM
    ceetee

    		'Twas associated with the film "The Birds" directed by Hitchcock. He advertised it by saying, seemingly ungrammatically, "The birds is coming", but if you ad another set of inverted commas, ""The Birds" is coming", then it is grammatically correct. We need phonetic punctuation, a la Victor Borge.

    Nov 07 12, 6:24 AM

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