Complaint: Improper execution of a contraction; failure of advertising agency to realize this; approval of grammatical blunder by the appropriate department of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City; mounting said offense to the side of mass-transit vehicles with intent to distribute bad grammar throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
Defendant: ANM Funding, a mortgage broker licensed in New York, New Jersey and Florida.
Report: Officer was standing at a crosswalk with his mega-pregnant wife when the offending grammatical faux-pas passed him at approximately 12 mph. Officer then engaged in on-foot pursuit of the vehicle for approximately one block south until the vehicle came to a stop. Passengers seemed unsure as to why someone was taking photographs of the side of their bus. Officer left before a crowd formed, and returned to his mega-pregnant wife who wanted to know what the hell was going on.
Fine: $226 and mandatory proofreading sensitivity classes for all advertising agency and ANM marketing department accomplices.
There’s probably a pun on “punctual” there…
Trevor-
That’s possibly out of the jursidiction. Typesetting offenses are covered by Font Cop, who doesn’t exist yet.
Me fail English? Unpossible!
Okay, I’ve heard rumors that I doesn’t talk good grammar (yes, I spelled it correctly) on here, but that’s because I can do whatever the Hell I feel like doing. This is my blog. If I want to write in…
also, that’s not a proper apostraphe, it’s a foot mark.
Yes it’s wrong! But … if life’s banal little trivialities such as this are so important, then god help us! If this misdemenour is so important to you or the cop concerned, then all I can say is … GET A LIFE!
Before anyone corrects Chris on “misdemeanour” be advised he’s from New Zealand, and that’s how they spell it. Why he’s humorless, I can’t say. I expected more from the Kiwis.
Brian has a strange idea of what constitutes humour (yep we spell it Humour), Chris.
I agree on the apostrophe point made by Trevor. I wish I could secure a graphic design job simply becasue I am aware of this issue. I also know better than to letterspace lower-case letters!
But alas I am working as a printer of wedding invitations mostly, and have found some scary typos in them: “Marraige” “Unit in marriage” “the Six of June” etc.
tung paris hilton jam ni person 19 vjecar dhe te pelqej shum shum dhe kam deshir mu u taku me ty
[ You took the consonants right out of my mouth. -B. ]
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