Comments on: Dreams of green

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:46:00 +0000

I am a bit sceptical about this new development. I am a realtor myself but I believe the Waterfront has already been devastated by all those new developments. No wonder the City is trying to revitalize it, albeit not too successfully.
We’ll see if this “last jewel” in the crown is really worth waiting for. Oh, I just hope I’ll be wrong…

By: swirlyman

swirlyman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:03:18 +0000

I guess they expect the only folks that can afford these condos are Italian mafia dons.

By: islander

islander — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:14:24 +0000

Remember in Grade 12 English when you’d be studying Hamlet or Macbeth and your teacher would explain how some word Shakespeare used (or invented) had a vastly different (or even the exact opposite) meaning to today?

Well, thanks to empty marketing and bad writers, the word undergoing a similar transformation is “prestigious.” An adjective that was intended to reflect a condition or quality that was sort of self-evident to the point that to use the word “prestigious” in describing an object, event or person was, in effect, redundant. As in, “Milton Friedman was awarded the (prestigious) Nobel Prize for economics in 1976.”

When “prestigious” is trotted out these days, it’s usually employed as an adjective to something banal or common. As in, “Register now for a chance to purchase a corner unit in the prestigious Shady Acres Tower.”

By: Bubble Lad

Bubble Lad — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:47:49 +0000

Your deportation comment made me laugh out loud. It does sound faintly ominous.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:58:01 +0000

Wait. They’re literally buying you a flight to Italy? I thought this was supposed to be some kind of (very strained) metaphor, referring back to the designers they gushed over in the line above. Either way, I can’t make much sense of it.

By: paulb

paulb — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:55:18 +0000

Eyes Wide Shut is bang on. Now all I can think of is a haunting orgy. lol! Unique ad for sure.

By: Kablooey

Kablooey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:03:04 +0000

Is anyone keeping track of the number of ‘last true waterfront’ developments we’ve had so far?

They haven’t given us any idea of what the countertops are made of. A glaring omission that even the greenest (a bad choice of words) of copy writers wouldn’t make.