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Puffery changed from a redirect and defined by Disccomp 22:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
The 18th century play The Critic contains a whole long amusing discussion of the various varieties of puffery: AnonMoos (talk) 18:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"I am, sir, a practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing, at your service--or anybody else's. I will take upon me to say the matter has never scientifically treated nor reduced to rule before. Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts; the principal are: the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, or puff by implication. These all assume, as circumstances require, the various forms of Letter to the Editor, Occasional Anecdote, Impartial Critique, Observation from Correspondent, or Advertisement from the Party."
I would think that it should have been very easy to find an example in English. Was there something special or meaningful about this particular example, or was it simply "thrown in" to have something instead of nothing?Jonny Quick (talk) 18:59, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
