2023 Super Bowl commercials
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Today's Tank McNamara:
YouTube already has multiple pages offering advance 2023 Super Bowl ads, as well as favorite commercials from past Super Bowls. And as usual, some of this year's spots have linguistic aspects, for example Sam Adam's ad featuring Boston cultural and dialectal stereotypes:
More examples later…
Some previous LLOG coverage:
"Commercial hybridity, Super Bowl edition", 2/4/2006
"The theme of this year's Super Bowl ads", 2/5/2009
"Coca-Cola's multilingual 'America the Beautiful'", 2/3/2014
"Alexa disguises her name?", 2/5/2018
"Super Bowl Dialectology", 2/2/2020
Also:
"Non-English Super Bowl broadcasts", 2/1/2004
"Jane Austen and the Super Bowl", 2/15/2006
"Superb Owls", 1/30/2019
bks said,
February 12, 2023 @ 10:36 am
Serena Williams will be flogging both \$100/bottle cognac and \$1.50/bottle beer today.
bks said,
February 12, 2023 @ 10:38 am
That's 100 dollar per bottle cognac and dollar-fifty per bottle beer. Dollar signs are not welcome here, apparently.
[(myl) \$…\$ flags a section of MathML in this blog's WordPress setting… Sorry about that. You can use a backslash dollarsign sequence '\\\$' to get the literal dollarsign character.]
Jerry Packard said,
February 12, 2023 @ 4:59 pm
HTML?
Andreas Johansson said,
February 13, 2023 @ 1:56 am
Reminds me of the old joke that people like the shopping channels because there are no ad breaks.