Apple has debuted a new ‘page-busting’ Web ad for 3G iPod touch on Wired.com and other sites:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “sparkplug” for the heads up.]
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Is that an Apple ad? or a Wired ad?
or … both?
It’s LIVE! Check it out the Wired website. Looks pretty cools.
They can keep their games, I want a video camera on the Touch.
The ad agency makes the request to the publisher (website). If it’s worth the $, the website will make it work.
DLMeyer:
It’s an Apple ad. It is Apple’s newest (and most creative) generation of online advertising. They are deploying it on various popular tech sites, one of which is Wired. Their previous online effort was from the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” series, with ingenious use of two Flash banners, one horizontal, the other vertical. This one is even more fun, with the creative use of Wired’s own logo and masthead.
Leave it to Apple and their ad agency to make the most fun-to-watch commercials!
Funnest??? English is circling the bowl.
“Funnest??? English is circling the bowl.”
According to the rules I had learned in school (some 35 years ago), the comparative and superlative for adjectives (and adverbs) that are monosyllabic is formed by adding -er and -est at the end (as in: smarter/smartest, dumber/dumbest, brighter/brightest, faster/fastest, slower/slowest, bigger/biggest, smaller/smallest… you get the idea). For polysyllabic words, it is adding more and most before them.
Therefore, according to those rules, fun, being a monosyllabic word, should be transformed into funner and funnest. Somewhere there, though, is some exception, which allows for certain types of monosyllabic words to go with more- and most-, rather than -er and -est. I couldn’t find that exception anywhere online. Therefore, the funnest seems to be fine.
One of the only times I disable SafariBlock is for these ads from Apple. Very cool.
English is a living language. It is evolving as we speak, pun intended.
Fun has evolved into an adjective and when fun is used as an adjective then the comparative can be funner, the superlative can be funnest.
Evolve or become extinct.
We all think this cute because Apple is doing it (and most of us here love Apple). But just wait until other companies start doing this. This will get old fast…
Funnest is a problem to our ears because we are more used to hearing “funniest”.
Apple is only doing what Shakespeare did – helping to shape English into the finest, most comprehensive language ever devised.
Just like OSX really.
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“Funnest” is comedic slang that is used to inspire a smile and a sense of joyfulness. The harmonics of the word precludes it from the official English vocabulary.
Ho hum…
Call me when there is a still/video camera in the Touch.
I’ll keep my 1G until then.
I love this!
Question is, why isn’t there a version of that on the MDN site?
Yep. It busted my page. Now I’ve got a big mess to clean up.
no GPS, no camera, no video, no funnest!
It’ll be funnester when it has a video camera.