From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 20/09/2025 10:17 AM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
  
 > On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:54:15 +0100, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >> "Norman Wells"  wrote: 
  
 >>> [quoted text muted] 
 > 
 >> Advertising doesn't necessarily involve commerce. Political advertising 
 >> being one obvious example. 
 > 
 > Political advertising is intended both directly and indirectly to raise 
 > revenue. 
  
 Some of it is. But not usually to the general public; only to party members. 
  
 The bit that is seen by the general public (eg, on roadside advertising 
 hardings) is invariably merely seeking votes. 
  
 > If that isn't advertising, what is ? 
  
 Yes, adverts seeking votes do count as advertising. 
  
 The word itself only means "publicise". That is certainly how 
 Shakespeare used it (eg, in "Twelfth Night"). I seriously doubt that the 
 concept of commercial advertising was even in existence at the time*; it 
 was used simply to mean "inform", "declare", or other words to the same 
 effect. 
  
 [*Other than for the names of inns and the hanging of painted signs 
 depicting the things for which they were named - important in a time 
 whan a large proportion of the population was illiterate and still 
 carried on today 9for the most part).] 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)