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Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone
theodp writes "Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project came under fire as Consumer Reports and others pointed out that a promotional video looked like an inappropriate endorsement of 'sexting,' prompting a quick edit and an apologetic tweet. 'The video,' observed Consumer Reports, 'includes a downright creepy sequence [beginning around 0:33] in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone's screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression...'"
Junior high? I was expected to write better than that in grade school.
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A native speaker wouldn't say "How do you call".
"How do you say...", or "What do you call...", are correct, but only one of those is what you meant.
Fair point though; native speakers don't learn the language formally, so a lot of grammatical errors are in common use because they match the way that people talk. At some point the rules will probably just be changed (or an exception recognised as correct usage) and so the language evolves, always has done and always will. If it didn't we'd still be using Medieval spelling and grammar.