tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post116495030534502838..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: L'Academie Anglaise de Dunkin DonutsPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1168911415818123862007-01-15T20:36:00.000-05:002007-01-15T20:36:00.000-05:00"latte" is defined as an ENglish word in Websters...."latte" is defined as an ENglish word in Websters. Not sure how long it has been, but it is indeed in common useage in English speaking nations, including the USA.<BR/><BR/>BTW--they don't say "latte" in Italy to order a coffee drink with milk. If you order "latte" there you get only milk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1165370714451850632006-12-05T21:05:00.000-05:002006-12-05T21:05:00.000-05:00"dummest"?! LOL I suppose we know who the domest..."dummest"?! LOL I suppose we know who the domestic ignoramus is.<BR/><BR/>Many Americans can speak more than one REAL language fluently. Only the self-hating, small minded ones care about phony corpro-speak codes.<BR/><BR/>Have you been fitted with with your tracking device yet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1164988848152855382006-12-01T11:00:00.000-05:002006-12-01T11:00:00.000-05:00What Dunkin' Donuts is doing is selling a beverage...What Dunkin' Donuts is doing is selling a beverage whose actual name is a word that has a dictionary definition meaning in small, medium and large sizes. <BR/><BR/>DD didn't make up a name in a butchered, phony mishmash of faux Eoropean languages to make pretenious wannabes happy about overpaying for the same free trade beans that are over-roasted. Yup, you have to overpay at SUX to be a branded corporate logo bearing sheeple.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1164985587938533872006-12-01T10:06:00.000-05:002006-12-01T10:06:00.000-05:00Definitely one of the dummest (and that's saying s...Definitely one of the dummest (and that's saying something) commercials on the air. So Americans are unable to even attempt quasi-foreign words let alone learn other languages. Coupled with anti-immigrant, anti bi-lingual education politics this doesn't say much for our self-image. And just plain unfunny. Not an inducement for me to try Dunkin Donuts coffees. -- JMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com