I noticed a slogan in the past presidential election: Love Trumps hate. At first I thought “Trumps”referred to people who supported Trump, and a “what” was omitted. Only “Love what Trumps hate” made any sense to me. But now I’m not so sure. What does it mean? Edited: I found it in Twitter hashtag from … Read more
In the movie Great Dane Marmaduke, someone says, “Say it loud. Say it proud.” But proud is an adjective, whereas the sentence really needs an adverb, proudly. Perhaps the same applies to loud as well. Why is “Say it proud” right? Answer Proud is an adjective, proudly is an adverb. “I say it proud” means … Read more
english is not my tongue language and I am working on a new viral content website, where I am trying to come up with slogan. Would be correct to say: “Adding motion to your daily boredom” Answer I agree that the “adding to” phrasing doesn’t make much sense. How about “Moving you through your daily … Read more
I’m creating a short slogan describing a website’s functions. The website consists of a photos storage function plus discussion boards. This is an attempt to put it shortly: Example.com is photos plus discussions Is it correct? Particularly, I’m not sure using “is” with plural nouns is correct. Answer The answer to this lies in a … Read more
or should it be “Documenting my journey to bringing…”? Answer Both are terrible. It would be less bad if you wrote: “How I brought …” Why? Because you can replace phrases of several words with contorted and unnatural verb forms by a one single-syllable English word that anybody can understand. However I fear for the … Read more
I’m currently working in a slogan and my outcome so far is something like Fine Results, Simple Methods However, by googling “fine results”, the search results shows me that there is little to none usage of these words in that exact order. I’m not asking for marketing advice or whatsoever, but I’m very concerned if … Read more
Of course we all know that when a personal pronoun is the object of a verb or a preposition, it must be an objective pronoun. My question here is about the choice of a nominative pronoun in the slogan of the solidarity movement for gender equality “He for She”. It sounds ungrammatical to me and … Read more
I am working on a slogan for a new furniture website that will feature furniture made by different individual makers and English isn’t my first language, so I was wondering if this slogan made sense: furniture made by makers Does that make sense? The idea behind the slogan is that it’s furniture made by small … Read more
I would like to use the slogan “Plan work. Track time.” for a product I’m working on. However, I’m a bit alarmed by the fact I get virtually no search results on Google for “plan work”, which gives me the impression it’s not proper English. Is it? Answer Actually, “plan work” is grammatically correct. As … Read more
I don’t know if this belongs more to User Experience. Pardon me if it does. Which is more suitable for kind of a slogan: Less for more – The word less refers to the prices and money, more refers to the quality and amount of the product. Can be understud as that less refers to … Read more
