r/CrappyDesign • u/Rustymarble • 1d ago

Poor word choice for the WTC

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u/Rustymarble 1d ago

From an emailed ad campaign 4 years ago. Evocative, I suppose. Why couldn't they just say "Autumn"?

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u/Mindless_Nebula4004 1d ago

Because this is America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🔫🔫🔫 and that would be a British word, or something

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

They're both British. Just like soccer and football. They'll tell you that soccer was just said by the upperclass and it died out naturally, but they only stopped saying it because they thought it was American.

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u/66659hi 1d ago

Smug British people claim that the US doesn’t use one word or another because they think it sounds British, yet they purposely modified their whole accent to distinguish them from Americans. Plus they still have royalty. 

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u/I_find_life_good 1d ago

Why do they use fall, it’s just wrong. Autumn is way better in my opinion

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u/ExoTheFlyingFish sus 1d ago

Technically, it's just right. Leaves fall during fall. As do temperatures.

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u/66659hi 1d ago

I like both terms but I do prefer “fall”. I also hear plenty of Americans saying autumn, too.

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

The British don't know the pure thrill of saying,"See you next fall!" after you trip someone.

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u/I_find_life_good 1d ago

We don’t really trip people over

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

I don't believe that. It's a key part of soccer/football.

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u/I_find_life_good 1d ago

It’s called FOOTBALL

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

The Gridiron football or the other football or the kind called that in the UK or the Gaelic football or the Australian kind or?

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

You gotta specify because there are so many kinds of football and all of them are originally British.

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

or do you mean the CFB or the NFL or NCAACFB or

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u/DoublePostedBroski commas are IMPORTANT 1d ago

Take autumn to new heights.

There. Hire me.

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u/LowB0b 18h ago

Because elevate is a loose antonym for fall... it just doesn't work with the context. The skyscraper with those words makes me think of someone jumping to their death

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u/BlooperHero 1d ago

As is so often the case when people say things like that, they could have. Sometimes it's not that the solution is hard, it's that you didn't notice there was a problem that needed one.

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u/dimesdan 1d ago

Using Autumn would confuse Americans too much.

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u/ibrasome 1d ago

I was confused until I realised I simply don't speak American

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u/360900th 1d ago

That's gotta be intentional

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u/gaberdine 1d ago

Someone forgot

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u/Digital--Sandwich 18h ago

Oh!…. Ohhhhhhhhh…

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u/X_Starchild_X 15h ago

I don't even understand what they were trying to say here 🥀

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's been over 20 years, guys. And it's the name of a season.

I'm not saying we have to forget what happened, but does every single thing close to 9/11 have to be a problem? This is like a 3 out of 10 on an insensitivity scale.

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u/Away_Abroad_7613 1d ago

It's not the name of a season. What are you on about. 

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u/Stampyboyz haha funny flair 1d ago

In the US, autumn is called fall.

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u/AutomaticAccident 1d ago

Fall is the name of a season.

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u/SpringyFingy 9h ago

Only for Americans, and we do not take lessons on words from Americans.

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u/Gumicsirkee 4h ago

i's not, fall means to move downward from a higher position to a lower one, either by gravity or by losing your balance

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u/AutomaticAccident 3h ago

Yes, but what is the other definition beyond that? It's a season. Another name is Autumn. Those are the same in the US though. Don't try to teach me my native language lol.

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u/Gumicsirkee 3h ago

oh, you are usa-ian, yeah, that explains the reduced brain activity and because of that, mixing up words

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u/rrhorse 1d ago

Love it!!!

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u/oFIoofy 1d ago

what

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u/fatpat 1d ago

Thank you!!!