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Trivial Pursuit ponders which sex is smarter
Hasbro is pitting the lads against the lasses in a new campaign for its Trivial Pursuit board game that aims to determine, once and for all, which group is more intelligent. The comical video above makes arguments for each side based on stock footage of general stupidity. Meanwhile, at the Web site, TrivialPursuitExperiment.com, you're challenged to answer trivia questions on behalf of your entire gender, with the global tally being kept up top. (And don't try to be all smart by logging in as the opposite gender and acting stupid. Only correct answers affect the tally, you idiot.) Smartypants worldwide will enjoy the campaign, but might quibble with the tagline. Shouldn't it be, "Who's smarter than whom?" Via Adverblog. —Posted by Tim Nudd
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See? Digital and ideas CAN co-exist. Nice work.
Posted by: Kinsella | Nov 5, 2009 12:46:45 PM
MEN > WOMEN. lol
Posted by: electric cigarette | Nov 5, 2009 3:47:35 PM
Smartypants could go either way on this one; 'to be' is a copula; it links two halves of a sentence which have equal weight. Neither half is more important than the other, neither is 'doing' anything to the other.
Most sentences aren't like that. Normally one half is 'doing' something to the other half, eg. 'she outwitted him'. And that's why the two halves are in different cases, ie. 'she' and 'him,' not 'she' and 'he'.
But because a copula links to parts of a sentence with equal weight, each half can be in the same case, eg. 'it is he who...'. But English speakers are used to putting the two halves of sentences in different cases, so sometimes they do. Neither's more correct from a linguistics perspective, but if anything 'who is smarter than who?' is possibly purer because both halves have equal weight, equal roles, equal importance and the same grammatical case.
Posted by: Linguistics pedant | Nov 5, 2009 5:09:09 PM
Sorry 'two' not 'to' parts of a sentence.
Posted by: Spelling pedant | Nov 5, 2009 5:10:38 PM
I'll trust you on that one.
Posted by: Tim Nudd | Nov 5, 2009 8:54:28 PM
I really like this campaign. I actually went to the site, answered a question correctly for the ladies and was rewarded with a "Fail" video of some guy wiping out at gymnastics. Nice way to bookend the experience.
Posted by: doozie | Nov 6, 2009 12:41:18 PM
love this!
Posted by: booboo | Nov 7, 2009 7:57:13 PM
This is awesome. I think this video/ ad gets everybody's attention. The examples are so common and funny. I went to the Web site and I started to play. I love it. I will have my boyfriend play with it and we will see finally who is smarter:D Nice job and really good adverstisement. Who would not want to be smarter than the oppsite sex??:)Well, I do.
Posted by: kunibaba | Nov 9, 2009 7:47:49 PM
