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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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I don’t think real world messages would look good in marketing copy, too many emojis, “uhhh”, “no cap” and bathroom pics. I don’t know what the author is expecting/analyzing here.

I’m disturbed that you have a lot of bathroom pics in your texts

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

#15

I don’t think real world messages would look good in marketing copy, too many emojis, “uhhh”, “no cap” and bathroom pics. I don’t know what the author is expecting/analyzing here.

He's analyzing what looks good in marketing copy.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill". So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, with proper punctuation?

*author's

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post #14

I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill". So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, with proper punctuation?

studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill". So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, with proper punctuation?

studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something

ok.
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