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Can someone explain the English of this slogan? It makes no sense to me. The thing being advertised is "what nobody else can give you". If I consider that to be
by a1371 1y ago
Can someone explain the English of this slogan? It makes no sense to me. The thing being advertised is "what nobody else can give you". If I consider that to be "it", then the slogan becomes:
Buy it for twice the price.
So it should have cost $298 then?
Wasn't it better to end the sentence with "at half the price"?
- loeg 1y agoNo; they're saying it outcompetes products at or below $1,200.
- spinarrets 1y agoYou are reading it like: For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you) (for twice the price) But it should be read: For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you for twice the price) Rephrased: No one else makes a machine that can do what ours does, even if they charge twice as much!
- timknauf 1y agoI had the same reaction, and had to read it three or four times to make sense of it. (Native speaker, with a degree in English.) I think it’s a very hard-to-follow sentence construction.