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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted 25 Apr 2006 at 8:59am #
You're wrong. It was intentional and is correct.