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9 Oct 2003

You gotta love it when the natural language of marketers is accidentally presented to consumers. The Siemens Web site lists as a feature of one of their mobile phones (emphasis added), "Target group specific animations, animated group symbols & multi-media postcards."

Now if only I knew which target group I belonged to.

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