Yesterday the American Dialect Society's ads-l list was abuzz with posts about the product name iPad, with how fast the jokes about iTampon and such have spread. As Dennis Baron notes,
here:
It's got a name that cries out for parody (that didn't stop the Wii).
Sure, and Apple was certainly thinking about this stuff in deciding on the name. This morning the
NYT ran a piece on this topic,
here. And it's on the
AP and everywhere. AP probably has the best line:
“Will women send their husbands to the Apple store to buy iPads?’’ went one joke on Twitter.
I'm guessing that the junior high stuff will pass pretty quick. At least I hope so. But there is a little linguistics connection too —see
this.
Yesterday the American Dialect Society's ads-l list was abuzz with posts about the product name iPad, with how fast the jokes about iTampon and such have spread. As Dennis Baron notes, here:
2 comments:
A grad school classmate (from Virginia) cracked a joke on Facebook that to him, the name just sounded like "iPod" said with a Wisconsin accent.
Yeah, the NYT piece kind of alludes to dialect issues .... I guess your friend associates Wisconsin with the Northern Cities Shift, eh?
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