Okay, so I was just in the dining hall, and since most of the food in there is impossible to identify by sight alone, I was checking out the sneeze guard to see what had been written there. Above the baked potatoes, I saw this:
BAKED POTATO'S
Now, unless these things actually belong to someone named Baked Potato, that makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
ADDING. AN. APOSTROPHE. TO. A. WORD. DOES. NOT. MAKE. IT. PLURAL. YOU. RETARDS.
Okay, time to eat. I hope Baked Potato doesn't care that I took one of his vegetables.
Posted by CD on February 16, 2006 07:14 PM | TrackBackYou have nailed one of my biggest aggravations- apostrophe abuse.
And to a lesser extent, the degree to which mainstream America doesn't seem to be able to spell.
I work for a big company full of techs and engineers and I can't tell you how many emails have spelling mistakes, incorrect use of 'you're' and 'your' and 'their/there/they're'... it's maddening. These are college educated people, supposedly, and they can't write a coherent paragraph.
But I'm beginning to wonder if the Stoopids are taking over. Example: I recently had the famous photo from Apollo 8- the Earth rising over the lunar landscape- as my desktop background.
A co-worker asked me if I took the photo.
Posted by: Barry at February 19, 2006 05:03 AM