Wednesday, 15 October 2008
‘ParenT's’
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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Sunday, 20 April 2008
The choise is yours
Sent in by my girlfriend, Natalie. After despairing of my pedantry for so long, she now seems to be taking the if-you-can't-beat-them approach.
Anyone for MIX salad?
*UPDATE* Oops, it turns out this wasn't sent to me by my girlfriend after all but my friend and colleague, Paul, who took the picture in St. Pancreas station and sent it to me by MMS. Due to the limitations of my phone I misattributed the source. Tech and social media fans should check out Paul's blog, Blending the Mix.
Labels: exclamation marks, menus, randomised caps, signs, spelling
posted by Gez at 6:10 pm
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008
It gets you wasted. Literally.
Why don't people realise that one can't simply throw words together at random and hope that the meaning of the resulting phrase is as intended?
Seriously, if you are smoking AIDS, stop it right now. Syphilis is much better.
The interesting thing about this is it's not technically incorrect but the connotations of the ambiguity certainly demand a rewrite.
Found via Digg.
posted by Gez at 10:44 am
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