Advertising – English Online https://english.baumfuchs.de A supplement to Daniel's Business English classes at HNEE Tue, 03 May 2016 20:18:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 The lumbersexual https://english.baumfuchs.de/2016/05/03/lumbersexual/ Tue, 03 May 2016 20:17:02 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=2333 Would you like to be as free as this man?


All you have to do is grow a beard and join the ranks of the lumbersexuals, a new fashion and lifestyle trend for men. (If you’re a woman, there may still be hope even without a beard). Its typical exponent has been described by GearJunkie as

macbook-axeHe is bar-hopping, but he looks like he could fell a Norway Pine. He looks like a man of the woods, but works at The Nerdery, programming for a healthy salary and benefits. His backpack carries a MacBook Air, but looks like it should carry a lumberjack’s axe.

The commercial, by the way, was made by Urban Beard, a Canadian cosmetics company that sells organic beard grooming products.

My question to you: is this a real thing or just an invention of marketers? Does it appeal to you?

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Quirkology https://english.baumfuchs.de/2016/05/03/quirkology/ Tue, 03 May 2016 14:06:44 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=2346 Today we talked about the word stunt, which is used differently in English than in German. Here’s a video about party stunts:


Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from the UK, also runs a blog with more interesting videos about optical illusions and the power of imagination.

By the way, Quirkology (the name of Richard’s YouTube channel) is a made-up word (from quirky = weird, eccentric and a standard Latin suffix). So quirkology is the science of the weird and eccentric.

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False advertising https://english.baumfuchs.de/2016/04/29/false-advertising/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 21:09:56 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=2328 false-advertising

via BoredPanda — a blog (mostly) about the beautiful things in life.

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The changing themes of commercials https://english.baumfuchs.de/2016/04/26/the-changing-themes-of-commercials/ Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:16:14 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=2322 Have a look at these three commercials. What has changed from the 1980s until today?

Lifestyle Sports discounter (Ireland), 1980s

Speak ‘n’ Spell (Texas Instruments), 1980s

 Coca Cola, contemporary

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