I find the fact that they use "Virtually" a lot also. "It can leave your dishes virtually spotless", or "you can have all this satisfaction with virtually no side effects." or maybe even "you could be driving your new Honda with virtually nothing down".
Virtually has very little meaning.
Portis
----- Original Message -----
From: andrewduke@canada.com
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: [idm] (ot) the words "may" and "might"
has anyone noticed the influx of the words "may" and
"might" in tv commercials lately? ie "...may reduce
your cholesterol" or "...might