Thursday, August 02, 2007

I was watching Wowowee kanina. And during one of the games , they had 3 contestants to answer one question.

Host: Kung ang whistle ay pito, ano naman ang whisper?

Contestant 1: Modess?

Contestant 2: Napkin?

Contestant 3: Silbato?

Host: Ano ba kayo? Tropang Trumpo???


Ano ba talaga ang whisper???

They were referring to this. Bilib naman ako sa p&g dahil people thought of their product rather than the meaning of the word. Ibig sabihin ang lakas ng brand recall nila. Parang the way people use the term colgate to mean toothpaste or xerox to mean photocopy. Kasi nga naman dun sila familiar.

And oh the last answer silbato was I think another term for whistle.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

in fairness, five million years bago ko naisip yung 'bulong.' "ano nga yung tagalog ng whisper? ano nga yun? ano ba to, nabobobo na yata ako!"

kudos to them. bakit nga kaya whisper ang pinangalan?

--cygnet

Aimee said...

alam mo tagal kong pinagisipan yan kung ilalagay ko ang sagot sa post ko.. pero naisip ko.. nako matatalino naman friends ko.. kayang kaya nila yan! hehehe.

o diba? nakuha mo naman e. matalino nga friends ko.. kahit slow ung iba! joke! :)

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