I can't take it anymore. (sentence, grammar, quote)
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Also common is to see egregious misspellings on professionally-produced signs. Does NOBODY along the way notice, or care? Shouldn't a minimum requirement for manufacturing signs be, the, you know, the people involved can actually read and write?
Two that spring to mind where I live:
An alignment shop, lovely big clean operation. The lighted sign reads, "Condon's Professional Alinement's."
Another is, of course, Bob's Family Dinning.
As I noted in an earlier post, there is a carpet shop in a nearby town that displays a "professionally" made sign with the following message in HUGE lettering:
REMNIT SALE!
Even if the owner of that carpet shop is a functional illiterate, shouldn't the sign maker know that there is no word such as, "remnit"?
Two that spring to mind where I live:
An alignment shop, lovely big clean operation. The lighted sign reads, "Condon's Professional Alinement's."
Another is, of course, Bob's Family Dinning.
Maybe his mom used "din-din" when he was a baby to encourage him to eat: "C'mon, now eat your din-din."
As I noted in an earlier post, there is a carpet shop in a nearby town that displays a "professionally" made sign with the following message in HUGE lettering:
REMNIT SALE!
Even if the owner of that carpet shop is a functional illiterate, shouldn't the sign maker know that there is no word such as, "remnit"?
HA! I missed that one I guess. Remnit.
And yes, yes he or she should. You would think.
I just remembered another one: MidStates Bolt & Screw.
No misspelling and it would be even more amusing if "Bolt" and "Screw" were reversed but my inner 12-year-old boy has a little silent guffaw when I drive past one of their signs.
Yesterday I parked in a Jersey City parking garage. When I stopped at the booth to pay the nice Indian attendant, I noticed he had a sign off to the side, decorated with smiley sun faces, that said, "Coming soon from bathroom". Everything was spelled correctly, though!
Over in the food forum: "Does anyone else hate humus cheese?"
That doesn't make sense on any level.
Aside from the fact that hummus is misspelled, something that is composed of garbanzo beans, garlic, tahini, lemon juice, mint leaves, and salt--with nary a speck of dairy products--is certainly not a cheese.
What could that person have been thinking?
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