I just ordered a couple pizzas from Domino’s. I know, I know, but I keep seeing ads for the Brooklyn pizza and it looks good (plus, the only pizza delivery where I live is chain stuff, anyway).
They have a “pizza tracker.” This is what it says when you order a pizza:
Would it have killed them to add a couple 'ves? I’m obviously not in their target demographic.
It took me a while to figure out what the hell you were talking about.
It took me a moment to get it too.
And since this is your thread, which is it, Dominos or Domino’s?
Their site says “Domino’s,” but with their grammar, who knows?
…or who know’s (<snicker>)
“Got” seems to have replaced “have” recently. What’s the matter, though, with the stronger “Pizza is heading your way!”?
You ordered the Brooklyn pizza. Try reading it aloud with a Brooklyn accent and it’ll all become clear.
Yeah, it sucked, too. Back to Papa John’s. Good grief, I wish there was decent delivery around here.
I’m pretty sure it’s “who knows.” Or was that a whoosh?
I knew what you meant right away. I don’t have perfect grammar but things this bad bug me. I also cannot stand it when businesses “creatively” misspell things in attempt to make themselves memorable. The worst was a ratty old conversation van on the street I used to live on that said “Komfort Koach” on the spare tire. For some reason it always sounded gross to me.
Well, at least now you know what your delivery fee isn’t paying for.
Their current slogan is “You Got 30 Minutes,” so I guess it’s the same thing. (Although, as the fine print in their ads and website says, “Because safety is a priority “You Got 30 Minutes™” is not a guarantee but an estimate. You may get more.”)
You guys are not going to believe this - I took a survey last week for, like, two bucks from Domino’s. Most of it was normal - “here are some new pizza and sandwich ideas, what do you think?” and the last one was “we’re going to make a pizza where we screen print the kids from High School Musical on the pizza, and it comes in a collectible box. What do you think?” It was hard to answer their questions (after the narrative bit where I was all, WTF? Seriously? Is this a nasty oily joke?) because they were like “Would you tell your friends and family about this?” and my answer was “Hell yeah!” but not because we’d want to, like, order it or anything.
Also, Domino’s is nasty.
Do you all really think that they wrote it that way by mistake? :rolleyes:
. I know, I know, you meant “conversion”, but damn that is hilarious anyway. I’m picturing a van careening all over town, with a pretentious pseudo-intellectual discussion going on in back as these Algonquin round table wannabes are thrown from side to side. And Otto (the Simpsons character, not the poster, unless he just really weants to) is totally driving it.
And zsofia, I will likewise be telling everyone I know about the pizza with high school children as the toppings. I know a lotta wannabe cannibals, and that’s probably the closest they’re ever gonna get without taking communion.
I’m not even sure it’s that recent. (“I Got You, Babe,” anyone?) Even in the early 80s I remember all the kids being chastised by their teachers for using “got” as a synonym for “have,” as in “I got some change in my pocket.” “Got” was practically verboten, the teachers either not knowing or not wanting to bother explain when “got” was perfectly acceptable (as the past tense or past participle of “get.”)
And it gets more fun than that, with certain dialects reanalyzing “got” and forming regularly inflected forms like “I got/you got/he gots”.
I do have to say though that in the Domino’s confirmation, the colloquial use of “got” instead of “'ve got” looks and sounds out of place to me.
No, of course it wasn’t a mistake. It’s a company using bad grammar in order to appeal to a certain demographic. I actually don’t think that there are people who would go out of their way to buy a pizza because the ad copy is written badly and I think it’s a bit condescending of Domino’s to think so.
If their tastes in food run to Domino’s pizza, who knows what their tastes in writing are like?
How do you feel about H&R Block?
I haven’t seen those ads and, from the one ad on your link, I couldn’t really tell what they were getting at. Were they trying to say, “I went to H&R Block and instead of a computer program, I got people?” Or are they trying to say “I have people on my side?” If it’s the second, then I feel the same way about their ad campaign that I do about the Domino’s campaign.
I had to stop reading this thread because it was making me laugh way too hard for the Pit.
It’s the second. So you think they’re trying to appeal to “a certain demographic”?