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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 5 Comments

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Tuesday, 6 November 2007

Grammar abuse in signage - part 9

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"Brew" Ridge, originally uploaded by DiegoLuego.

This one has everything.

Unnecessary quotation marks? Check.
Irritating marketing spelling (thru)? Check.
Apostrophe abuse? Check.
Unnecessary capitalisation? Check.
Spelling error? Check.

Heaven preserve us.

Labels: apostrophe abuse, foreign language spelling errors, marketing copy, photos, punctuation, quote me happy, randomised caps, signage, spelling, top ten

posted by Gez at 4:21 pm 160 Comments

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