Spotted: Manchester Christmas Market, 2007
I do love a nonsensical sign.
In case you can't read that, it says "You can make your Christmas celebrations here!!! Information among the staff." Among the staff? What? Hidden amongst them? Booking information pinned to their backs? Price lists secreted under jumpers?
I've probably mentioned it before but I am a massive pedant. Bad spelling and grammar make me angry. An erroneous apostrophe can make me weep. Don't even get me started on 'i before e'. I just don't understand how there are shop signs out there that are spelt wrong. Or menus. Or anything, really. I'm actually getting worse as I get older because I'm starting to judge people for it. Starting to? Who am I kidding? I'm Queen Judge of the Judge Kingdom.
The sign below, however, delights me. Foreign mistranslations turn me right on...
Spotted: Greece, 2008
I miss my pedantic partner in crime. Noone else understands the horror of misplaced punctuation quite like him. Although he never could spell 'weird.' Wierd!!! I ask you!!! (feel my indignance through the power of exclamation marks)
3 comments:
glad to hear you like your new job so far!! congrats!
Ahem!
"spelt wrongLY..."
Well, you did ask for it ;) You know, I think I've become less of a pedant in my old age, now that I have to do it for a living, but shop signs - particularly proper ones - really get on my nerves. If you're going to pay all that money to commit something to type, surely you'd have the common sense to proof it first?!
xx
Have you ever seen engrish.com?
It's really just signs in foreign countries that have missed something in translation - with hilarious consequences!
Post a Comment