Thursday, 20 December 2007
Grammar Abuse in signage: part 15
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You've probably seen this as everyone in the world reads The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. If you don't, you should. 
I love to hate everything about this sign: the terrible typefaces; the indented first line; the incorrect tense; the misspelt three letter word; the weird hanging quotation mark; and finally the ambiguity. Am I to built my onw taco, or my onw taco bar?
It's up there with the worst sign ever.
Labels: menus, quote me happy, signage, spelling, Typography, wrong word
posted by Gez at 11:28 pm
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5 Comments:
Come on, Gez. It easily beats your so-called "Worst sine Ever.
I can smell a competition. With prizes perhaps?
Erm, I've just looked at it again and I'm not sure it's a sign. Is it a menu? I can't tell the true size without a reference. It's like looking at a Picasso.
Going by the perspective of the black backing to the white paper, it almost looks like an A1 flip-chart. That's a chart of A1-sized paper, by the way, rather than a flipchart dedicated to the boyband A1. I bet even the members of A1 know when to use the past tense of the verb 'to build'.
Um, what's a super taco, anyway?
OK. I took this photo. I onw it!
And when I was builting my blog" it was truly super.
http://www.bowlofcheese.com
or see the first shot of it on
http://www.bowlofcheese.tumblr.com
Really.
OH. BTW, the sign is just larger than an 8.5 x 11 and is mounted on grey/black see-through plastic. It's the specials board at my work. Not telling you where.
Jeff
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