When I first started writing this blog I told myself I would only need to do Three days a week. I would do a Market Update on Monday, general blog of whatever was on my mind on Wednesday and a book review on Friday. Easy enough. I found I like it so much that i want to throw in an extra day. So here it is, and it's no charge, of course.
I've always been a little taken aback by the language a lot of Real estate agents use. I've run into a lot of agent here in Livonia Mi that use bad or even foul language. I've always believed that as a sales professional, language is one of our most useful tools.
I'm not trying to come off as an English teacher, which I'm not. Those of you who are or were will easily pick my blog apart for sentence structure, syntax, spelling (especially spelling) and all sorts of infringements. So I;ve decided I'm going to go back to school and take some English courses. There's a local community college right here in Livonia and it seems like a good thing to do.
What got me interested in this discussion was a commercial I saw this morning for a famous hamburger chain. A guy is eating a breakfast sandwich telling his friend about the "hunger pains" he woke up with. His friend corrected him by pointing out the word was "pangs" not "pains". A discussion then ensued about the filling power of the sandwich.
That got me thinking about other commercials I've seen that are correcting bad grammar. For instance, we get "fringe" benefits, not "french" benefits. It's the leaning Tower of "Pisa", not "pizza".
Norm Crosby used to make a living out of mangling language but we as salespeople should know better. What else is out there? Have you hard any recent non-sequiters that caused you pause?
Let me know.
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