On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:26 PM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apart from the minor issue that the five things that stick out of the front
> of
> a normal human foot are called "toes" and not fingers. I mean - if you want
> a
> pair of sunglasses and the salesman offers you a selection of toothbrushes
>  you
> should have some inkling that he doesn't know which organ he needs to deal
> with.
>
> Fingers? On feet?  Pah!
>

But Shiv, I thought it was a given, within the world of marketing, that it
is alliteration over accuracy. Five Fingers just 'feels' right, their focus
group must have told them. Though, come to think of it, they could have gone
in for Ten Toed...

Nishant

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Nishant Shah
Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore.
Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org )
Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09
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