When bad grammar happens to good, or at least acceptable, clothes
April 2nd 2009 14:17
My husband came home with a t-shirt one day that read, "Yes Dear, Your Right Dear, I'm Sorry Dear". Now, apart from the Superfluous Capitalization and the lame "humour", the worst thing about it was the you're/your confusion. It's one thing to make this mistake in an email or something, but on a t-shirt! That one paid for and wears, no less!
Good thing that the t-shirt was from his friend, an army surplus store proprietor. It seemed, however, that the friend had already sold many of the shirts and no one had noticed or at least pointed out the mistake. Silly. I mean, if you're going to make fun of people, namely, the 'womenfolk', you would look less stupid if you did it correctly. I suppose my husband and friend had had enough of the mockery, for the last time I visited the store, the shirts had the correct spelling of "you're".
Recently, after doing my daughter's laundry, I noticed the tag in one of her hand-me-down pairs of pants:
This is only a tag, so I'll not rag on it too much. But, still..."wear alot"? While I appreciate the sentiment--making the most use out of our stuff before it becomes landfill is both economical and ethical, IMHO--the "alot" is irksome. Didn't anyone at the company notice the error? I wonder if the perpetuation of common errors allows them to be mainstream, and eventually acceptable.
Speaking of baby clothes, does anyone remember the Marks & Spencer (or should I say Mark's & Spencer) apostrophe snafu from a few years ago?
Good thing that the t-shirt was from his friend, an army surplus store proprietor. It seemed, however, that the friend had already sold many of the shirts and no one had noticed or at least pointed out the mistake. Silly. I mean, if you're going to make fun of people, namely, the 'womenfolk', you would look less stupid if you did it correctly. I suppose my husband and friend had had enough of the mockery, for the last time I visited the store, the shirts had the correct spelling of "you're".
Recently, after doing my daughter's laundry, I noticed the tag in one of her hand-me-down pairs of pants:
This is only a tag, so I'll not rag on it too much. But, still..."wear alot"? While I appreciate the sentiment--making the most use out of our stuff before it becomes landfill is both economical and ethical, IMHO--the "alot" is irksome. Didn't anyone at the company notice the error? I wonder if the perpetuation of common errors allows them to be mainstream, and eventually acceptable.
Speaking of baby clothes, does anyone remember the Marks & Spencer (or should I say Mark's & Spencer) apostrophe snafu from a few years ago?
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However, the same can be said for clothes and other goods with Chinese writing on it. I think the makers just randomly choose Chinese characters, or ones that look nice to them.