For instance, while literacy is not necessarily the skill I mostly look for in a manicurist or hairstylist, frankly I don't want them too stupid. If their boss can't tell "formally" from "formerly" or "has" from "have", I don't want them working on me. Of course, only a true nitpicker would bother to point out the incorrect ellipses (always three full stops) used incorrectly.
Also, I don't want anyone who claims to have a doctorate but who can't spell "digital" working on my hearing aid. (Ironically, he spells it right one line later.)
The first seen on Motor Parkway in Hauppauge, the second on a shopping cart in Glen Cove, NY.
Aaah ... I haven't actually lived up to my domain name for months.
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What's worse, of course, is there's a "Haupauge Plaza" right near 111 and 347.
HUGE friggin sign.
The incorrect apostrophe is by far the most common sign error I see here in Michigan. I am boggled by the number of people who seem to think that the plural form of most nouns requires an apostrophe.
Also, I frequently hear radio ads that have glaring subject-verb number disagreement. One in particular drives me nuts because I hear it multiple times every day. It's an ad for a guy who does vision correction surgery and features the actual doctor saying "I, Dr So-and-so, and the So-and-so Institute for Eye Surgery wants to make you stay a comfortable one." I have no idea if the guy is any good at his job or not, but there's absolutely no way someone who thinks that "wants" is the appropriate verb in that sentence is going to operate on me.
So, I post on politics, science, and even about my first TV appearance and no comments, but make fun of a typo and I get two ...
Well, for my part, sorry about the limited replies. I admit to skipping almost all of my March blog reading because I was in India.
Today, while posting a new entry, I realized that my real criticism should have been of the sign maker for the day spa. If anyone should have caught the typos, it was him/her.
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