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More Egregious Grammar

Posted April 20th, 2006 @ 05:58pm by Erik J. Barzeski

A picture at Valerio's on 32nd and Pittsburgh Avenue here in Erie showed small baby girl eating a submarine sandwich. The handwritten caption read: Your never to young to enjoy a Valerio's sub!

It's been there for at least a year and nobody's managed to change it, despite the fact that you could easily fit an apostrophe, an "e," and an "o" in between the other letters and spaces.

5 Responses to "More Egregious Grammar"

  1. Quote MeBob Maguire
    Posted 22 Apr 2006 at 2:19am #

    I've known people to carry around Sharpies for just such an occasion. Our local Dairy Queen had a sign in their freezer that read "Secretary's Love Our Cakes" for years. My mother sent them a letter, which we could see in the response letter had been forwarded to several others. What became of it? The sign remained, but they did send a bunch of non-expiring coupons for our trouble. They recently renovated, but the sign is (un)fortunately no longer with us.


  2. Quote MeTom Morris
    Posted 24 Apr 2006 at 4:32am #

    My old English teacher got €50 from a shop for sending them a letter correcting the numerous errors in one of their posters.


  3. Quote MeDaniel
    Posted 24 Apr 2006 at 9:37am #

    Misuses of apostrophes, and the common mistakes related to your/you're and there/their/they're all really bother me.

    Its not like its very hard to learn these simple rule's!

    Ahem.


  4. Quote Meoldman
    Posted 25 Apr 2006 at 8:51am #

    "It's been there for at least a year and nobody's managed to change it..."

    Was that an intentional mistake in your own use of apostrophe? :) I'm pretty sure you cannot use "nobody's" to mean nobody has.


  5. Quote MeErik J. Barzeski
    Posted 25 Apr 2006 at 8:59am #

    You're wrong. It was intentional and is correct.



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