TV advert, or a waste of air space ?

[electric*mayhem*band]

Can anyone understand what this goon is saying ?

[ooak3]

another stupid annoying ad !!

i would not buy because the ad is so bad !!

p.s   nice view though !!

[kopenhagen5]

Apparently the first ever TV advert entirely in Cornish.

"Ice-cream commercial is the world's first to be spoken in the Celtic tongue".

[lind9650]

I have not seen this ad, but to be honest, without ads we would not have free TV. I remember the time we had to pay for a liscence to watch TV, and inspectors were scanning the houses in every street to find the ones that had not paid their fee.

Commercials may be a nuisance, but you can pay now to watch commercial free TV.

TV stations have to have an income from somewhere.

Erica

[lurker172602]

I would say it's a very successful ad.  The scenery is beautiful, the ice cream looks delicious and it's caught people's attention.

Winner!

[davidc4430]

what icecream? too busy looking at the pretty moo cows.

[electric*mayhem*band]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Apparently the first ever TV advert entirely in Cornish.

"Ice-cream commercial is the world's first to be spoken in the Celtic tongue".

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Well there you go, a small audience. Since only 557 people in England and Wales declared Cornish to be their main language - 464 of whom lived in Cornwall - for all the other 99.9% of the population knows, he might be saying that the ice cream tastes like cow dung, and may contain shards of broken glass.

Lind, is all TV in Oz free ? Do you not pay a Licence fee to any organization ?

[lurker172602]

I don't see any problem with a dying minority language being restored and used.

When I was young in NZ we heard virtually no Maori spoken, in fact in my parents generation children were punished in school if they we heard speaking it.  Now it is an official language and is seen and heard everywhere.  Official documents e.g., birth certificates are now bilingual, and there is a Maori language TV channel. 

It has permeated into general usage and lots of my family now use Maori words casually in conversation, for example whaneau instead of family.  I say "look at your big puku" when I tickle my grandsons tummy.

I think the country and its people are richer for that.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Hi e*m*b. We used to have to pay a licence back in the old days. It was abolished in 1974. Free to air TV here is comprised of 4 commercial channels and their offshoots (for the most part absolute rubbish) and 2 government run channels:the ABC which is our equivalent of the BBC and SBS which specializes in foreign language movies and shows as well as documentaries etc.

[the_great_she_elephant]

 In a TV ad the imagery conveys the message just as much as the words (sometimes even more so) so I don't think the language is a problem, The important information -  the brand name and list of flavours - come across quite clearly and  the close ups of the product combined with footage of contented cows supply the rest of the message. I actually think it's quite clever