iPod Funnest = bad english

[bilbo--baggins]

Funnest is the sort of bad English that seems to even be creeping into BBC news reports. Is this acceptable to Americans, or is Apple using this as a 'playful' twist of the language?

 

[TEG]

I noticed that too, but what would have been better?

"Most Fun iPod Ever"

That just sounds horrid.

TEG

 

[xJulianx]

This crossed my mind as well. It seems along the same lines as saying something like 'badder'

 

[NT1440]

apple always uses words like this. I remember some grammatical error just about a year ago, its just the way apple does things.

 

[dizastor]

FUN FACT: Steve Jobs stopped using Macrumors forums after the 15th time he was lambasted fort his bad grammar.

 

[skunk]

FUN FACT: Steve Jobs stopped using Macrumors forums after the 15th time he was lambasted fort his bad grammar.

Don't you mean "funnest fact"?

 

[panzerjedi]

This annoyed me as well. It shouldn't be a word!

 

[mikelong622]

This just kinda makes me cringe every time I see the ad. I would think that the brains at Apple could have thought of something better than this. Things like "Thinnovation" for the Macbook Air are ok because it is a completely made up word. "Funnest" is used incorrectly all the time.

 

[EricNau]

I'm not even sure it's a word.

 

[Schtumple]

I'm not even sure it's a word.

There's no article on it on wikipedia, so we can all safely assume it doesn't exist

Therefore the ad is a linguistical paradox.