“A Domino’s Pizza marketing campaign that offers speech lessons to Brooklynites who want to rid themselves of their ‘annoying, fake’ accents has irked borough pizza lovers. The telephone hotline campaign, a tie-in to the national chain’s Brooklyn Style pizza, argues, among other inaccuracies, that fuhgeddaboudit is – get this – three words. ‘Our accent-recognition technology will determine when you’ve completely lost your annoying, fake Brooklyn accent,’ an operator with no discernible accent says cheekily, before asking listeners to repeat well-worn Brooklyn phrases like fuhgeddaboudit and howyadoin’? ” Local reaction is not good.–NYDN
Bklink: Domino’s Disses Brooklyn Accents
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
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