Linguistic Obsession
"Want to see smoke come out of my ears, just show me a misplaced apostrophe or an improperly used transitive verb." I didn't write that, but I'll be nice and not edit the wonky use of commas by my generous host.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Sighted on an elementary school billboard this morning:
"READING IS FUNDAMENTLE"
Spelling, on the other hand....
Monday, September 11, 2006
Boolean mistake
Seen on the back of a bottle of nail polish:
Keep away from heat or flame
There are a few problems with this:
- This implies that you should keep it away from one or the other, not both as I'm sure was the intention of the warning. (Gee, I think I'll keep it away from heat today, but not flame.) At least it should say "heat and flame".
- The "or flame" (even "and flame" should problem #1 have been addressed) in pointless unless non-hot flames have recently been discovered. The word "heat" covers flames as far as I understand the concept of fire.