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Can someone explain the English of this slogan? It makes no sense to me. The thing being advertised is "what nobody else can give you". If I consider that to be "it", then the slogan becomes:

Buy it for twice the price.

So it should have cost $298 then?

Wasn't it better to end the sentence with "at half the price"?




You are reading it like:

For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you) (for twice the price)

But it should be read:

For $595, you get (what nobody else can give you for twice the price)

Rephrased:

No one else makes a machine that can do what ours does, even if they charge twice as much!


I had the same reaction, and had to read it three or four times to make sense of it. (Native speaker, with a degree in English.) I think it’s a very hard-to-follow sentence construction.


No; they're saying it outcompetes products at or below $1,200.




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