Is it in Brooklyn? On Bedford?
But then some people make it more difficult than it already is. They think “possessive…like hers…so I should be writing her’s.” So that makes me angry as well.
Nope, in St. Louis, but the same language abuse. I still giggle when I think of the drop of laundry.
It’s probably a natural translation mistake from Japanese to English if there is another sign with the same mistake. Damn. I was sure “We are not responsible in ANY of your belonging.” was a unique statement. Hell, I guess it might just be corporate policy.
I say it to people sometimes. When someone is acting sorry for themselves at a bar goes they got dumped or are lonely, and I don’t want to hear it, I just say “Hey, I’m not responsible in any of your belonging, pal!” and walk away chuckling while they typically look confused.
DaLovin’ Dj
I sympathise with the original poster’s frustration. As for correcting people, if there are sad fucks out there who still can’t get apostrophes right, I can’t be arsed to change their grammatical diapers for them any more. Let them drown in the shallow end of the gene pool, their garbled words dribbling out of the sides of their mouths like snot and saliva.
All your’s laundry is belong to us.
:d&r:
My employer’s stylebook for our quadruple-edited legal periodicals requires using an apostrophe to denote a plural after initials. I learned this when I wrote an article on liability for storing protected health information on personal digital assistants. When I learned I was to abbreviate the plural as “PDA’s” my heart sank; like you I think it looks dreadful.
I’m not sure which other style book/books we used in creating that rule; generally, we base our style on reasonable authorities. I’d be interested to see if anyone knows of one that approves or requires this usage. Ah, I see Bren_Cameron has provided one, but its for a different situation - no periods in PDA. Hmmmmm.
(Thank god we generally don’t have reason to refer to decades.)
I was biking and saw a pre-school with the sign:
:rolleyes:
I just shuttered.
Are you sure you didn’t shudder?
Gaudere’s Law is all through this thread. Unbelievable.
This Onion headline made me giggle:
“It’s funny cause it’s true.”
[/Homer Simpson]
I work in printing and design and I suffer bad spelling, foul grammer and horrific puncutation everyday. And every day I come to work I face this sign:
Some people watch things happen,
Other people make things happen,
Which are you!
All I can think is, stop yelling at me!
Hey, they could be selling their daughter (virgin or not, as the case may be).
Or a girl named Cherry could be selling fors.
I have never tried fucking an apostrophe. However, I have had sex during a period, at which time I did comma.
Ouch.
december, that is baaaaad. :eek:
What if it read “Cherry’s for rent”?
Your first quote mark is actually 2 appostrophes rather than a double quote.
And now I see that someone has already pointed this out.
Oh well…