Tactless Radio Ads...
Jan. 17th, 2005 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI heard on the radio this AM the Unicef ad for Tsunami relief and I hate to sound uncaring, but it's an awful spot. This very tender male voice says that if we come together we can form a "... different kind of tsunami... a tsunami of hope, a tsunami of relief..." and it just makes me cringe.
It's almost like they want to change the connotation of "tsunami" so it's not associated with mass destruction. I just think it was a poorly written ad. A "wave of hope" or "wave of relief" sounds better to me. Using the word "tsunami" in a positive context just seems wrong.
It's almost like they want to change the connotation of "tsunami" so it's not associated with mass destruction. I just think it was a poorly written ad. A "wave of hope" or "wave of relief" sounds better to me. Using the word "tsunami" in a positive context just seems wrong.
