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I was at a restaurant today, and there were serious issues with the menu. Examples:

* "Fresh" Sandwiches
* Pizza "Award's Winning"
* "Toppings" For Your "Pizza"
* Roast "Beef" cheese Roasted

Anyone else ever see things like this?

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mmmm.... cheese roasted....

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

I only saw a problem with the second one...Others seem fine.

ARGH I know I see alot of mispellings...but all that comes to the mind right now Is that sign in school that says "ANGER is one letter short of DANGER"

And I'm like..uh...no that spells Danger (duh-ang-ger) not Danger (Dayn-Ger)

It's more Like "ANGER is one letter and one long A sound away from DANGER"

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Misused quotation marks.

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Misused? They're there to keep people from suing. "Fresh" is for if someone think's it's not fresh. "Award's Winning" is a grammatical error, and the quotes would be for if any loser went in to the archives to see what awards were won and found none. Probably some customer said "Good Prize!". "Toppings" is an ill defined word. Some wouldn't consider "pineapple" a topping. "Beef", well it's roasted, but because of the quotes, it may not be beef...

That's probably not what they meant by it, but it could be interpreted that way.

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Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smile and go greeting
Whatever comes next

No, some people incorrectly use quotation marks for emphasis. My high school had a sign above the gymnasium that said:



..with quotes and all. It cracked me up.

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Oh. I thought that Jesty Just did that to point out the mistakes.

EDIT: *Looks at Mandys Avatar* AHHH!!!!

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Roasted cheese? WTC?

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I's funny if you imagine some guy doing the little quotation finger thingies while saying the quoted words.

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no... Cheese Roasted... You know, like Honey Roasted or Oven Roasted? Who needs honey roasted turkey when you can have some cheese roasted "beef".

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

During my senior year in High School my school was planning to build a new wing on the school. When the school descibed the buliding they said it would be "State-of-the-Art steal buliding." A steal building. I know my school is not the richest school in the world, but I don't think the need to resort to stealing to build this.

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I just thought that this would go in with real life grammatical errors.

ACTUAL SCHOOL ABSENCE EXCUSES FROM PARENTS -- INCLUDING SPELLING.
*My son is under a doctor's care today and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.
*Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
*Dear School: Please ekscuse John for being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.
*Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.
*Please excuse Roland frrom P.E. for a few days. Yesterday, he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
*John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
*Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
*Megan could not come to school today because she has been botheres by very close veins.
*Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
*Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had [s]diahre, dyrea, direathe,[/s] the s***s.
*Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.
*Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
*Please excuse Jim for being. It was his father's fault.
*I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because I don't know what size she wear.
*Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.
*Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.
*My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the Marines.
*Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps.
*Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a hangover.
*Please excuse brenda, she has been sick and under the doctor.

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No, I lied. I'm never going to have a good sig. So just forget about it.

To beat that, they were a catholic school, weren't they? Thou shalt not steal ring a bell?
Besides, how do you steal a building. Seems like something that big would be kinda easy to trace.

That's what happens when people rely on spell checking too much. Unless it's a grammar checker, too, it'll let things like "your cool" or "it's there fault".

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Not really grammical but still pretty good. Our school has a sign that say Please Remove Footwear That Has Been Worn Out Side. But some of the letters are missing so it says: Please R mov Footw ar hat Has B en Wo n Outside.

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Too bad I don't have a scanner...

In Sweden it's rather common for people to separate words that should be written together.

Like, "brunhårig sjuksköterska" means "brownhaired nurse", while "brun hårig sjuk sköterska" means "brown hairy sick nurse".

Or, "gladpackad räkmacka" means "plastic wrapped shrimp sandwich", while "glad packad räkmacka" means "happy drunk shrimp sandwich".

Most errors aren't that severe, but it's annoying that you can find such errors in newspapers and on TV and such.

Goes well with the "Beef" sandwiches! Maybe it's really Spam in disguise.

I usually have good grammar, but I do typo a lot. It seems I have a tendency to typo when it's be funniest. For example, I once wrote "He sword" instead of "he swore," and "space bad" instead of "space bar." (Space bad? Don't you belong in a SBEmail somewhere?)

And then there's the Strange Maybe story, which I've already posted somewhere else on the forum. Which is that my family once got a letter addressed to "Strange Maybe," and a call from a telemarketer for a Mr. or Mrs. Maybe. Not really a grammatical error per se, but pretty flippin' funny!

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

I was looking at a bottle of A1 steak sauce once, manymanymany years ago...like 7 or 8...and somewhere on the bottle they meant to write "tablespoon" but they omitted the "s", leaving the word "tablepoon". I was too young to catch the almost double-entendre, but it was still funny for the family.

Also, there are signs all over my county with essentially the same message:

[City Name]
SAYS
"NO TO DRUGS"

The quotation marks should end at the word "No" for the sign to make sense. And I think the addition "BUT THEY JUST DON'T LISTEN" is appropriate for some cities, because in some parts of town, almost no one has a firm grasp on the concept of driving.

AFTERTHOUGHT: Steak sauce smells really good. X3.

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