{"id":567,"date":"2009-04-07T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/honda-has-the-highest-of-any-other-car-company\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:20:40","slug":"honda-has-the-highest-of-any-other-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/04\/honda-has-the-highest-of-any-other-car-company\/","title":{"rendered":"“Honda has the highest … of any other car company.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard this in a TV commercial ten days ago.<\/p>\n

Problem:<\/strong>
\nThe word “other” does not belong in the statement.<\/p>\n

Explanation:<\/strong>
\nThe complete statement in the television commercial was, “Honda has the highest residual value of any other car company.”<\/p>\n

The commercial was produced by Honda to promote Honda automobiles.<\/p>\n

But the statement talks about Honda as if it were one of the “other” car companies.<\/p>\n

In other words, the statement implies that there is a car company that could have higher residual value than Honda and all the “other” car companies and that Honda has the highest residual value among those “other” car companies.<\/p>\n

If Honda’s desire was to say that its automobiles have the highest residual value among all<\/em> car companies, then the solution comes from removing the adjective “other” from the statement.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/strong>
\n“Honda has the highest … of any car company.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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