Dunglish

Nicely pointed out as spam by the more aware people of the Internet, some Dutch search engine company still dares pollute my inbox after all those laws banning spam were passed.

And since they can’t spell and, according to Google — a real search engine — they are the only ones offering “Full Collor”, I feel no shame in shaming them back. The part I really like is “met een volledige “Full Collor” pagina”, which translates to ‘a full full-colour page’ or if I were still doing this professionally, I would make it ‘a full-page full-colour advertisement’ or something like that.

Before I dig into this one, I want to tell everyone that Dunglish now feeds to Twitter. Come join in the fun at @Dunglish. Again, thanks to @beun for pushing it up my to do list.

And while @beun reminded me how 2007 RSS feeds are, this company name is so very 2000. To many Dutch people, ‘together’ and ‘to gather’ sound almost alike, hence the probable decision to just mix it all in here. Lykle, who originally posted this picture on Facebook, called it ‘fail’ and I couldn’t agree more. ‘Eat to gather’ makes no sense, no matter how you slice it and sounds thought up at the last minute, not to mention that nobody is going to ‘aural squint’ (as I call it) and thnk, ‘oh geez, they mean together!’. And then there’s ‘eat2network’, ‘eat2motivate’ and… wait for it…. ‘eat2buildyourteam’. I’m full already.

Kudoz for anyone who can appreciate the slightly veiled reference in the title.

(Photo: Lykle)