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Old 12-03-2006, 07:48 PM   #1
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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.
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Old 12-03-2006, 08:05 PM   #2
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Old 12-03-2006, 08:27 PM   #3
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o.O...um, wow...you blew my mind with this one...
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Old 12-03-2006, 08:37 PM   #4
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Sorry... :S Or is it a good thing? Why'd I blow your mind?

Does anyone else know of any other misspelled product names?
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Old 12-03-2006, 09:11 PM   #5
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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?
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Old 12-08-2006, 09:18 PM   #6
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BB you made sense. I don't really care. Sometimes I think that the misspellings can be cute sometimes.

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Old 12-08-2006, 09:23 PM   #7
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Misspellings deserve a swift death.
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Old 12-08-2006, 09:30 PM   #8
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We have to give misspellings some credit.
If it were not for misspellings, I don't think Shakespeare would have coined the word weird.
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Old 12-08-2006, 09:43 PM   #9
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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.
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Old 12-08-2006, 10:37 PM   #10
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I'm really confused now. XP

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Misspellings deserve a swift death.
Then.....
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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?
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Old 12-09-2006, 03:38 AM   #11
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Misspellings deserve a swift death.
And how do you inteld to kill words?
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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*
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Old 12-09-2006, 08:41 AM   #12
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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.
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Old 12-27-2006, 06:32 PM   #13
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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::
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Old 12-28-2006, 12:27 PM   #14
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One thing is for sure:

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

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Old 12-28-2006, 04:14 PM   #15
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And how do you inteld to kill words?Oh, OK, never mind. I guess that plan is canceled... *laughs*

hahaha. Awesome.
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Old 12-28-2006, 04:29 PM   #16
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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.
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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.
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Old 01-07-2007, 04:27 AM   #18
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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
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Haha, it's only a no-no when one has not much to say about it.
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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'?
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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.
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Old 01-07-2007, 07:37 PM   #22
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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...
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Lol, both are no-nos!

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

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