Tuesday 17 July 2007
Get Involved
Sometimes our quest to protect grammar requires action, not words. Which is satisfyingly ironic I suppose.
Restaurant menus are not massively verbose tomes. Nor – as the food-snobs among you are doubtless aware – should they ever be.
Whilst dining recently in the comfortable but contrived surroundings of Newcastle 'GastroPub' As You Like It, I felt compelled to take matters into my own hands:
I advise that all GrammarBlog readers and contributors take a red pen along to restaurants in future. Remember to add http://spandg.blogspot.com to your graffiti.
Oh and yes &ndash sadly I hadn't the time nor the inclination to highlight every grammatical and linguistic horror on the menu; one look at the smorgasbord of errors and trite capitalisations in the above photo ought to give you an indication of just how dreadful the whole thing was.
Labels: apostrophe abuse, As You Like It, menus, photos, revolution, The List
posted by Tom at 7:31 pm
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3 Comments:
The revolution starts here. Let's issue red pens to the world.
I'd like some "Red wine Sauce" with extra capitals please.
Would you like that Simply Grilled?
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