[78-L] Grammatically incorrect^ [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

In my experience of 20+ years in the Denver traffic courts, I found two things about signs.

1.  Most people do not read them.

2.  If you can get them to admit that they _acidentally_ read them, they think they [the signs, such as STOP, SPEED LIMIT, NO TURN &c] do not apply to them [the driver].  Some sort of mental magic at work here....  So, even if the illiterate who made the sign had accidentally used the right word, it wouldn't havve made any difference!

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:

> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Grammatically incorrect^
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 10:15 PM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> > Time to put a carat on this conversation because it
> has lo-o-o-o-ng since 
> > gotten away from 78s.
> > Just came back from the grocery store where I learned
> from the checker 
> > that dozens of fully loaded shopping carts had been
> abandoned in the 
> > aisles and the employees had to track them all down
> and return the 
> > groceries to the shelves. Why? Apparently, the store's
> machine that 
> > processes food stamps had broken down and they weren't
> taking any 
> > payments. I asked the checker why customers abandoned
> their carts in the 
> > aisles. She said that they didn't or couldn't read the
> note posted on the 
> > front door to the store.
> > On my way out, I saw the note, which read:
> > "Due to technical problems, we will not be excepting
> food stamps today."
> >
> [sic?!] If so, some of the shoppers were probably confused
> as to how food 
> stamps
> could be "excepted"...from what or whom?! Others were most
> likely 
> "functionally
> illiterate," like all too many people in the 21st
> century...after all, one 
> doesn't really
> NEED to read to enjoy TV or the "bottom end" of the
> Internet,,,>!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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