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Note how increasingly wayward the single quotation marks get; by the end of the notice they're almost like brackets.
We've hit the mother lode! Inappropriate capitalisation, misplaced apostrophes (of course) and quotation marks used for emphasis.
Note how increasingly wayward the single quotation marks get; by the end of the notice they're almost like brackets.
Labels: apostrophe abuse, quotation marks, randomised caps, signage, signs
posted by Gez at 4:43 pm
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15 Comments:
And for crying out loud, don't let them grow up to be ( Cowboy's )
Nice!
We've had references to Alan Partridge, Dumb and Dumber, Three Amigos and quite a few different song lyrics, but I think that's the first Willie Nelson reference we've had in a comment. We should start a meme.
I wouldn’t let my kids near anywhere with signs like that.
Er, if I had kids.
Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
Wow.
"Motherload"?
"Mother lode", surely?
--c.
Well done, Clive. You spotted my deliberate mistake and earned yourself 14 GrammarBlog points (the shiny variety).
Further points are available to anyone who chooses to swallow the "deliberate mistake" explanation over the "hasty and careless" alternative.
Old people do this a LOT..... In my building, there's an old guy who is forever trying to unload stuff in his place, and he posts notices advsing fellow tenants of a
"Big" Furniture Sale!
All items must "GO"!
Entertainment unit $500 "O.B.O"
This is a true shocker, but the newsletter my kids bring back from their primary school is getting close.
The most upsetting (well, you know what I mean...) example was in last week's (inappropriately named) Literacy update which thanked "all the hero's who helped with their childs' reading this week", adding (after a splice comma) "keep it up".
Yeah, thanks. I'll leave it to the expert's (sic).
Another deliberate mistake, perhaps: The sign does not have quotation marks used for emphasis, rather parentheses. Good find!
Wow. To know there are people who produce such vomit inducing specimens makes me very sad.
i like your blog.
funny. informative.
I really hope this sign isn't from a school!
If only such errors were limited to the elderly, Michelle! Sadly, the same sign could easily have been produced by one of my teenage students.
My eyes! Oh - it hurts so much to see such ignorance.
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