or are we perhaps witnessing a shark-jumping here, whereby sign-makers everywhere are now deliberately "playing" with q-marks, perhaps as a result of this blog's recent (and well-deserved) kudos in the media. i sometimes think that as well when i see dodgy english used on e.g. a made-in-china product -- a shop near my house sells rice-cookers emblazoned with ("inspirational"?) english-language phrases like "happy sunshine launches great flower joy", and i sometimes wonder if the manufacturer hasn't perhaps outsourced that arm of their business to a PR or copywriting agency that specializes in concocting cute malapropisms and such for situations like that...
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Things I see a lot: silica gel "do not eat"; hair dryer labels; inside the bus "do not drill"; Wal-mart sign about IDs; coffee machine with "2" cup sizes; employees must "wash hands"; that failblog post.
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or are we perhaps witnessing a shark-jumping here, whereby sign-makers everywhere are now deliberately "playing" with q-marks, perhaps as a result of this blog's recent (and well-deserved) kudos in the media. i sometimes think that as well when i see dodgy english used on e.g. a made-in-china product -- a shop near my house sells rice-cookers emblazoned with ("inspirational"?) english-language phrases like "happy sunshine launches great flower joy", and i sometimes wonder if the manufacturer hasn't perhaps outsourced that arm of their business to a PR or copywriting agency that specializes in concocting cute malapropisms and such for situations like that...
Great to see this...
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