The phrase "barbie about" is not a grammatically correct part of a sentence in written English.
It is a colloquial or informal phrase that could potentially be used in spoken conversation, but it would not be considered proper written English. Example: Incorrect: Barbie about with her friends at the park, she had a great time. Corrected: Playing with her Barbie dolls while at the park with her friends, she had a great time.
Messages on Twitter spoke of disgust over an iTunes game which shows a smiling cartoon character named Barbie about to go under the knife.
Hasbro, the maker of My Little Pony approached Mattel, the company behind Barbie, about a potential transaction late last year, and the companies have held on-and-off-again, Bloomberg reports.
Author Susan Marenco, meanwhile, told ABC News that she had been asked to write about Barbie as a "designer".
Reddy claims that analysing the recordings enables ToyTalk to boost the accuracy of what Hello Barbie hears by about 15%.
"Half the jokes were about Barbie as a bad role model for girls, and the other half were about how ugly the spokesmodel was," he said.
His latest projects for F. A. O. Schwarz include a motorized dinosaur head (the jaw chews); a Barbie castle, about 12 feet by 16 feet, with architectural details like gumdrops that light up; and a ceiling-high pagoda topped with foam tubing he shaped to make a gracefully curved traditional roof.
The child's audio is being recorded, but only so that the doll can perfect its speech recognition, recall pertinent details about its owner, and archive those conversations so that parents can later access them and review them online, giving them full transparency and control over what information the Barbie stores about their child.
So, on Barbie's birthday, how about thinking about all the positive contributions Barbie has made?
To give Mattel its due, it would be difficult to quantify the positive effects of Barbie – the anecdotes about girls' creativity, about making their dolls have sex, get tattoos, lose their hair in Hoover accidents.
Erickson is the man who called Wendy Davis, the Texas legislator, "Abortion Barbie," and, writing about Michelle Obama, speculated about whether "Obama's Marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbitt on him".
Other tidbits from this all-about-Barbie website: 90percentt of girls age 3 to 10 own at least one Barbie doll; Barbie is the No. 1 doll sold in the United States and the No. 1 toy sold in the world; since 1959, over 1 billion (that's with a "b") outfits have been made for Barbie and friends; and the Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall and weighs 7.25 ounces.
