Sunday, March 15, 2020

Can language do this much?


        The Automobile Club of Southern California produced a public service announcement.  

        The video showed a woman driving with her kids, curving all over the road, and she's got a bottle of beer in her hands, and it says, "You woudn't do this; so . . ."  And then it changes, and she's driving distractedly again all over the road, "so why would you do this?"  And she's reading her cell phone.

        The two scenes jumbled together for me, and I thought, the beer has got her reading her cell phone.  No, they're just trying to make a comparison, and then she's curving all over the road and drives into the car ahead of her.  The following text then appears: 

                                     Don't drive intoxicated.
                                     Don't drive intexticated.

It's a stretch.  But the witty connectedness wins me over.
  

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