i'd like to bring attention to the poorly spaced and unnecessary hyphen and the awesome spelling job at the end there. you figure at least one of the employees at the establishment would say something. if only there were as many grammar nazis in RL as there are online. and they say that the internet is killing the english language.
Yeah, but... sometimes the quotes are actually correctly used. "Not working" is a quote from the person that requested the sign.... or maybe the sign maker thought that wasn't really the accurate description.
Now, if it was: Not "Working", that would be different...
I just discovered your blog. I'm so happy to know I'm not alone about hating random quotation marks. I've always wanted to track down the sign makers and ask what they think the quotation marks mean. Thanks for giving me a forum to vent my quotation mark frustration!
It’s in Comic Sans, too…
ReplyDeletei'd like to bring attention to the poorly spaced and unnecessary hyphen and the awesome spelling job at the end there. you figure at least one of the employees at the establishment would say something. if only there were as many grammar nazis in RL as there are online. and they say that the internet is killing the english language.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but... sometimes the quotes are actually correctly used. "Not working" is a quote from the person that requested the sign.... or maybe the sign maker thought that wasn't really the accurate description.
ReplyDeleteNow, if it was: Not "Working", that would be different...
I just discovered your blog. I'm so happy to know I'm not alone about hating random quotation marks. I've always wanted to track down the sign makers and ask what they think the quotation marks mean. Thanks for giving me a forum to vent my quotation mark frustration!
ReplyDeleteDid you notice "inconvience" as well? Not quoted, but another problem the poster-maker seems to possess.
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