Advertising Quote by George Will

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

— Robert Smithson

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to…

— Susie Dent

“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”

— John Kenney

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,

— A. O. Scott

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need…

— Trevor Nunn

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general…

— John Berger

I suspect that there is no other single profession that does more to contribute to our annoying linguistic convolutions than advertising, unless it's politics.

— Jef I Richards

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever…

— Robert W. Sarnoff

“although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet to television.…

— Neil Postman

Language is butchered by the media

— Don Watson