Thursday, August 28, 2014

Grammar error..or not?

Grammarly ran this picture of a sign thinking there might be missing punctuation:


Personally, I am not so sure with the amount of people who are "accidentally", or even intentionally shot in places with "get away with murder" laws that this might be a grammatical error.  People are accidentally shot while hiking on trails:  the Appalachian Trail even gives a warning to hikers to wear orange in hunting season to try to avoid hikers being shot.

Take  this sign:

It might not be too far off to suggest the first sign WASN'T a grammatical error when people walk around armed in inappropriate situations.  Additionally, shootings are given a slap on the wrist, if even punished.

As the song goes:  "Yanks with guns, say shooting people, is such fun".

8 comments:

  1. LOL you moron. All shooting ranges are marked like this so people don't climb over the berm and get shot. You need to get out more.

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    1. Not all. Some of them don't even have any berm at all. Maybe you should get out more.

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    2. This is untrue. All shooting ranges abutting public land have backstops/berms. You don't even live in the US, so how *would* you know?

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    3. Oh, all of a sudden we're talking about only those "abutting public lands?" Even among those do you really believe that not a single one deviates from the best practices? Not a single one in rural Montana, say, that "abuts on public lands" has improper safety features?

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    4. Obviously there would only be a sign if it were public land. How can you be so obtuse? Maybe there's an exception in Montana, and maybe there's a teapot orbiting Jupiter. Retard.

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    5. AN exception in Montana? C'mon,man, be honest. There are exceptions all over the place. Stray bullets hitting nearby houses or people are a problem in every state.

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  2. This looks like a job for the grammar guerrillas....

    "Some people may think that grammar doesn't matter anymore, but there is clearly a quiet army out there of those who disagree.
    In the wake of a council's decision to remove apostrophes from street signs, an anonymous guerrilla grammarian is going around using a marker pen to correct the punctuation.
    Signs with missing punctuation, such as that at Scholars Walk, have seen the correct apostrophe inserted overnight."

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544696/The-pedants-revolt-Grammar-guerrillas-make-mark-battle-against-Cambridge-councils-war-street-sign-apostrophes.html


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  3. Yep, street signs don't usually have punctuation. The classic being "Slow Children".

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