NY Has Officially Lost It's Mind Bitch

[Rexmons]

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

If you say that, you better make sure they know which spelling you're using.

Reminds me of a particularly bruising sign I once saw posted in the unclassified bit of a NavSecGru building, the sense of which was "your suggestions will help a lot." The poor bustard who wrote it found himself hung upon the horns of a dilemma in Homonym Hell:

He wrote it Y O U apostrophe R.

Dear God, they let this niblick graduate from high school??

[tw]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

"your suggestions will help a lot." ...
He wrote it Y O U apostrophe R.

Dear God, they let this niblick graduate from high school??

English Nazis are alive and prolific. Irrelevant was the author's point. His spelling error created no confusion or distortion. But English Nazis, like Religion Police, must protect us from ourselves. Screw the purpose of his sentence. Crucify him anyway. Clearly he must be a false prophet! Consider the source when asking for relevance.

Why would anyone attack "the poor bustard" over a silly apostrophe? And what relevance does that accusation have to NYC and the word 'bitch'? Well both are about making personal attacks. One would ban intentional insults using the word ‘bitch’. The other endorses insults justified by the political agenda of English Nazis.

Why so much personal hate and mockery because of a misplaced apostrophe?

[Clodfobble]

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites from www.overheardinnewyork.com:

Dumb teen: Hey, look at this! It says "Train for jobs in biotch."
Smarter teen: Fool! That word is biotech. Why you gotta be ignorant all your life?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by tw

English Nazis are alive and prolific. Irrelevant was the author's point. His spelling error created no confusion or distortion.

That's true, and wouldn't give me much pause, in a hand written note or board post.
It does jar me, however, when a professionally made sign contains errors like that. It indicates a lack of professionalism that makes me wonder whether the message is actually what the person that commissioned the sign intended.

[DanaC]

I've told this one before, but i'll tell it again cause it sticks in my mind:

A beautifully 'chalked' blackboard sign, wth border decoration and little pictures of wine glasses and popping corks and this message, artfully drawn with delightful little serifs:

"Christmas bookings now bean taken"

[yesman065]

How bout the COVER of Mainline JulyAugust 2007 (in the Philly area)

DISAPPEARING ACT
Is the Main Line vanishing underour watch?
Of course the picture on the front is an attractive woman in a bikini with the placement of the "underour" about hip high.

This magazine claims to be an Arts, Culture and Lifestyle Magazine

[wolf]

That would be the free slick magazine with the advertising for the high-end businesses you can't afford to drive past, much less go into?

I get the Montgomery County version.

On a cover, more often than not the problem is actually one of bad kerning, the space is there, but it's not balanced the same as the rest of the text. You got picture?

[yesman065]

I think you are talking about Lifestyle Magazine. This is the one that recently was in a lawsuit with Mainline today over the name. I have the mag at work, but our new scanner doesn't get installed till Monday - will see what I can do then.

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's true, and wouldn't give me much pause, in a hand written note or board post.
It does jar me, however, when a professionally made sign contains errors like that. It indicates a lack of professionalism that makes me wonder whether the message is actually what the person that commissioned the sign intended.

On a trip deep inside a General Motors 'machine cavern', I noticed a sign on the elevator spelled it "employees". I asked the union guy who finally corrected its spelling. That (and all other signs in GM) spelled it "employes". He told me that Roger Smith has resigned as chairman two days ago. GM in days was changing all signs and all forms to the correct spelling. Because Roger Smith spelled it "employes", then all signs, forms, etc had to be changed to "employes".

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by tw

English Nazis are alive and prolific. Irrelevant was the author's point. His spelling error created no confusion or distortion. But English Nazis, like Religion Police, must protect us from ourselves. Screw the purpose of his sentence. Crucify him anyway. Clearly he must be a false prophet! Consider the source when asking for relevance.

Why would anyone attack "the poor bustard" over a silly apostrophe? And what relevance does that accusation have to NYC and the word 'bitch'? Well both are about making personal attacks. One would ban intentional insults using the word ‘bitch’. The other endorses insults justified by the political agenda of English Nazis.

Why so much personal hate and mockery because of a misplaced apostrophe?

Try competence with one's native language.

Clearly this is something you are not equipped mentally to appreciate.

This, tw, is a contemptible and acutely ignorant point of view -- not an unusual thing from you. You display no more respect for the English language -- at which you are by no means superbly skilled, either from deficient schooling or because English isn't your first language, your style in it being at once voluble and erratic -- than you do for American patriotism, to which you are actively hostile. If the prospect of an American win can keep you unresponsive to a simple, direct question as to whether you'd want it, why are you still within U.S. borders? I've asked you that four or five times now, and the question seems to hang you on the horns of a dilemma: Do you want America to win the war?

Do not seek to argue with -- nor try for an advantage over -- me concerning the English language, unless you are as deeply masochistic as your other unattractive personal traits are deeply ingrained. All your talent, it seems, is confined to electrical engineering, leaving a conspicuous want of them in the languages. You just never did have any people smarts or political acumen, did you?

[DanaC]

Why do you care so much Urbane?

I don't think it's contemptible to want to see in others' writings, what they intended rather than wilfully disparage it simply for a misplaced apostrophe. Actually, apostrophes are one of the more difficult concepts in the English language to grasp. Many, many people who are otherwise perfectly competant at communicating in both verbal and written arena, and whose vocabulary is just as extended as either yours or mine, have difficulty with the correct usage of apostrophes. There are one or two very specific usages of the possessive apostrophe that I have to think carefully about and I used to teach the language.
There is a reason we have the phenomenon of the Greengrocer's apostrophe.

[TheMercenary]

Someone needs to tell that Bitch Council woman to sit down and shut the hell up.

[DanaC]

Someone needs to tell that Bitch Council woman to sit down and shut the hell up.

They should also tell her to untwist her panties.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Why do you care so much Urbane?

Because he can't argue the point, he resorts to a, "Hey, look a birdie" move.