Comments on: All words hypnotize, that is their function, so choose your hypnotists carefully

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:04:11 +0000

Here’s an example;take the world famous Virgin logo.If you turn it slighty to the left so that where the underline and tail of the g form an X,you’ll also notice the V forms a slightly hidden S and the i,r and part of the g form a broken capital E,spelling the word SEX.
So you have Sex/Virgin in one word.Very clever Mr.Branson.

By: Funny or shameless, you be the judge! » Notes from a Linguistic Mystic

Funny or shameless, you be the judge! » Notes from a Linguistic Mystic — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:12:38 +0000

[…] Although the camera phone picture doesn’t capture it terribly well, they’ve boldfaced letter such that it spells out “MONEY IS GREAT” down the page. I can hardly expect that they’d think this would somehow subconsciously tempt people into their business/pyramid scheme/web of crime, but still, it’s fascinating. Given my past interest in subliminal advertising, I found this as a humorously bad example of the idea, and I figured I would share. […]

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:18:51 +0000

I had no idea the FCC had banned the use of subliminal messages in advertising. How about product design based on subliminal messaging? Supposedly, the Edsel was trying to use subliminal messages based on what its front end resembled. If you look at a picture of it, you can see where they were going. I think the Edsel was a bust. Do you think we as a society buy into this? Do you think some linguists can use their linguistic powers for the good of advertising? I enjoy your tirades.