Monday, September 22, 2008

just for emphasis


just for emphasis
Originally uploaded by mirthmobile
It has been pointed out time and again that a common purpose for misused quotation marks is to create emphasis. This flier, posted in a nursing home office window, has emphasis out the wazoo.

My favorite:
"chips, salad & yer'Hot Dog...!"

Extra points given for using a far too unused contraction (yer') twice on the same page including a rare yer'Hot.

"Bring yer' appetite!" clearly means, "Bring yer' $3"

4 comments:

Oliver said...

"Bring yer' appetite" probably means "Bring yer' $6 or any other large number divisible by 3."

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Unknown said...

"Emphasis" is what linguists say when they mean "hell if I know." Like "ritual object" for archaeologists and "sexual display" for zoologists.

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Anonymous said...

Why does yer' have an apostrophe??? Is it short for something? Yerself, maybe?