by david allan van nostrand | Oct 9, 2023 | Advertising, Human Behavior, Language, Using Information
Who Is David Ogilvy? The New York Times said David Ogilvy was the Father of the Soft Sell The hard sell is the in-your-face way of selling products. It’s the strategy employed by timeshare salespeople, car dealers, Billy Mays, and the Bass-O-Matic. The hard sell’s...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 2, 2023 | Human Behavior, Language, Sociology, The world around us
The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Sociolinguistics is the study of how people use language and how it changes over time. It examines all aspects of the interrelationship of language and society, how language varies among speakers, and the...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 12, 2022 | Language, Social archaelogy, The world around us, Wordplay
In the 1800s, street gangs didn’t have guns. They used cloth bags or socks filled with sand as homemade weapons to conk people over the head with so they could steal their money and their goods. The next technological evolution was the blackjack. Also referred to as a...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 5, 2022 | Human Behavior, Language, Outsiders, The world around us
To throw someone under the bus is to shift the blame to them, usually to deflect it from yourself. It involves betrayal and sacrifice, particularly for the sake of personal gain. It is exploiting someone in a vulnerable position, especially when they are sacrificed in...
by david allan van nostrand | May 31, 2021 | Human Behavior, Language, Misinformation traps, Wordplay
Elegant and fashionable people from high social classes are called posh, which was Victoria Beckham’s choice (when she was one of the Spice Girls). Posh is also the name of a pedigreed cow that sold at auction for a record-setting £262,000. The owner said the name...
