defstef
17-10-2006, 14:27
"I'll spell Potatoe [sic] any god damn way I want!"
"Hello there sir. What pizza's do you have? Oh actually - no...I think, what about kebab's? Two kebab's? And a burgar. No - sorry... one kebab and two burgar's. That's it, thanks. Can you please take out all the superfluous apostrophes, though? They make me feel sick. And they make you look really retarded as well. Thanks. Burger's spelled like that, too."
I must point out that the above hypothetical half-of-a-dialogue (we'll assume there were some grunts of acknowledgement from the person serving) did not actually ever take place in Pameir pizza, and that they are neither exclusively, nor in every case actually, guilty of all of the grammatical disasters demonstrated above. However, they once gave me a pizza with chicken on it that was green, which gave me terrible gas that smelled like a rotting animal, so they're fair game.
I think there was a similar thread about the misuse of apostrophes over the summer, but it seems to be the case that a few retailers working in the takeaway food industry are particularly grammatically creative in their literary forays. It's endearing to a point. However, I've decided not to go to anywhere that has signs that annoy the **** out of me, because we could be entering "falling down" territory, especially if I don't get chilli and garlic on my donner/doner/döner. Anyone else similarly irked by such blatant wrongness? I mean, what I do - if I'm unsure about a spelling - is I use a dictionary, especially if I'm going to make a huge sign to display in my shop window for all the world to see. I don't own a big window, or a shop, but that's the way I roll. Dictionaries and that.
(The sign made me laugh, btw, but only because it made me think of Bill Hicks doing his 'Damien' Quayle lampoon.)
"Hello there sir. What pizza's do you have? Oh actually - no...I think, what about kebab's? Two kebab's? And a burgar. No - sorry... one kebab and two burgar's. That's it, thanks. Can you please take out all the superfluous apostrophes, though? They make me feel sick. And they make you look really retarded as well. Thanks. Burger's spelled like that, too."
I must point out that the above hypothetical half-of-a-dialogue (we'll assume there were some grunts of acknowledgement from the person serving) did not actually ever take place in Pameir pizza, and that they are neither exclusively, nor in every case actually, guilty of all of the grammatical disasters demonstrated above. However, they once gave me a pizza with chicken on it that was green, which gave me terrible gas that smelled like a rotting animal, so they're fair game.
I think there was a similar thread about the misuse of apostrophes over the summer, but it seems to be the case that a few retailers working in the takeaway food industry are particularly grammatically creative in their literary forays. It's endearing to a point. However, I've decided not to go to anywhere that has signs that annoy the **** out of me, because we could be entering "falling down" territory, especially if I don't get chilli and garlic on my donner/doner/döner. Anyone else similarly irked by such blatant wrongness? I mean, what I do - if I'm unsure about a spelling - is I use a dictionary, especially if I'm going to make a huge sign to display in my shop window for all the world to see. I don't own a big window, or a shop, but that's the way I roll. Dictionaries and that.
(The sign made me laugh, btw, but only because it made me think of Bill Hicks doing his 'Damien' Quayle lampoon.)