Saturday, September 13, 2008

just ignore this one


I must say my favorite thing about this sign is the implication that everything after that last opening quotation should also be quoted. Fortunately, this meeting is only "mandatory". Thanks, KB.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"... Just closing the open quote...

Lucy Corrander said...

How unfortunate that we weren't advised of this earlier.

Otherwise, we might all have turned up.

Lucy Corrander

http://picturesjustpictures.blogspot.com/

Alistair Coleman said...

It's quite simple:

1 apostrophe + 1 apostrophe = one quotation mark

Unknown said...

It's far worse than that! What about the extraneous apostrophes?!