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→Form: adding 'think different' as an example that's actually an example rather than just dialect ("we was robbed"). I don't like using the term 'incorrect', but that's what the definition on this page gives so I'm running with it. |
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Another noted example is when professional prize fight manager Joe Jacobs cried, ''We '''was''' robbed!'', after his fighter lost a decision in 1932. Through this utterance Arthur Quinn claimed Jacobs "achieved for himself linguistic immortality."<ref>{{cite book |last=Quinn |first=Arthur |title=Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to turn a phrase |edition=1st |publisher=Peregrine Smith |location=Salt Lake City |date=1982 |page=5}}</ref>
Apple's advertising slogan [[Think Different]] can be viewed as a deliberately incorrect grammatical construction.
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