Good to know: English no longer required skill for copywriters

By adamg - 7/1/08 - 4:16 pm

Unless "Web 2.0" and "concept" are verbs now and I just missed another memo. Knowing what really happens to people who drink the Kool-Aid is also not a requirement.

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uh huh...

By kstier - 7/1/08 - 4:40 pm

#1

Work/life balance = free twizzlers and endless foosball time while working on Memorial Day weekend. Beware of any company that asks that you to "drink the Kool-Aid."

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it's now, it's happening, it's TODAY!

By mark_baard (not verified) - 7/1/08 - 7:51 pm

#2

reminds me of the odd couple episode in which felix turns on a hipster adman, after the guy uses one too many buzzwords...

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"wildly talented employees"

By bobmetcalf - 7/1/08 - 8:01 pm

#3

Is there an imminent Sarah Schweitzer front
page, above the fold Globe story in the offing?

"Wildly Talented Employees flock to Verb-Challenged Company!"

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bleeding-edge

By Lyss - 7/1/08 - 11:37 pm

#4

of a knife?

(And I thought I had a problem on my hands with clients who want to use "leading-edge," "leading edge" or "walk the talk.")

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ugh

By jason (not verified) - 7/1/08 - 11:54 pm

#5

I say this as an editor who hears from PR companies all the time: I fear the day I hear from Kel & Partners, because if this posting is any indication, whatever they send me is bound to be annoying.

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Annoying? Yes.

By dga (not verified) - 7/2/08 - 7:49 am

#6

This is from Kel&pArTnErS web site. They are so much hipper than us:

Instead of reading or ghost-writing books on the subject, every single employee at Kel & Partners lives, eats, breathes & overdoses on Web 2.0 in our work & play & this gives us immersed insight that most rhetoric-based agencies will never grasp.

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&

By Gareth - 7/2/08 - 7:55 am

#7

& we buy ampersands in bulk

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bring on the burst bubble

By Spatch - 7/2/08 - 9:10 am

#8

If only the dictionary had rounder edges and user interactivity ("lol defecate means to poop") then perhaps these folks would feel compelled to check it often.

I think the sad part is that while I think the website's pretty crappy, this kind of thing no longer surprises me.

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I see Kel Kelly's got a blog, where I see she's not just drinking the Kool-aid, she's eating her own dog food. I suppose all that's left on the list of unappetizing things to do is opening the kimono.