C/D: Correcting your supervisor's spelling mistakes on handwritten signs

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....but I was only trying to help!

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I do this all the time. Perverse, smug satisfaction.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Correct this: Your fierd.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping this was going to be an Amateurist thread.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I kinda like spelling mistakes on handwritten signs. There's something almost quaint about a shitty little grocery with a sign in the window that says "Watermelans $3.59"

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

GET A BRAIN, MELANS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

WET A MELANS!!! YUMMM!

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

BANANA'S 49P

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

i once worked with a guy who would send out emails on our department's behalf that were ridden with grammatical and spelling howlers. unfortunately you can't take pen and ink to 2,000 copies of an email.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I was asked yesterday by a manager how you spell "phrase".

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

fraze

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha in what universe is correcting your boss's spelling a sound political move??? Dude, I can't believe you did this!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

the mcdonald's on jackson & wabash in downtown chicago is a haven for handmade signs with egregious spelling mistakes. they must have some manager. i recommend a visit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.flickr.com/2826875_f5c167177f_m.jpg

I took this picture a few blocks from my home.

― teeeny, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

one of the mcdonald's signs was, as i recall, "we are revonating. sorry for the inconvence." what made it unusually poignant/funny was that the manager had printed out roughly 25 copies of this sign and posted them all over the restaurant.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

making fun of the afflicted, classic or dud?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

xpost

at least it isn't "softwear"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

I'll have to check that McDonald's out. That's a block away from my office.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

we should get lunch some time, in the loop i mean.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

email me your cell and i'll give you a call tomorrow or thursday before lunch.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

for YEARS we had signs all over our office (taped to the monitors of all the print servers) typed in two inch high letters "DO NOT SHUTT DOWN". I mean, wtf, who can't spell the word shut?!

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

....but I was only trying to help!

What did it say? What had to be corrected?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Ceral Bowels - $.99 each

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Early Years 1959-66 [IMPORT], The Shadows — 99¢

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Dairy of Anne Frank - 99c

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

At the supermarket I work at there's rarely a sign that doesn't have at least one spelling mistake. Also they have these crappy 'inspirational' slogans dotted round as well, and one of them said 'in an ever changing world, the fastest way to move backwards is to stand still', which made me very tempted to affix a post-it note pointing out that it'd still be faster to actually move backwards.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Brilliant.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

For some reason everybody in the office seems to come to me for spelling advice, even though I'm the youngest person there and therefore potentially the least literate. WTF

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Potentially? Are you?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, no. I guess I'm probably the most literate.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

My boss is probably most literate, actually, but he's more likely to go off on a massive tangent when all you wanted was the correct spelling for 'disenfranchise'.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

I just walked past the deli on the corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street (in Manhattan); they have a big stencilled sign in the window reading TUNA WELT.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Poeple at my old work used US dictionaries for some reason, so I'd have to correct them all the time. By the end I'd became some kind of English monitor.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd became

As you can see they came to the wrong person.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

the mcdonald's on jackson & wabash in downtown chicago is a haven for handmade signs with egregious spelling mistakes. they must have some manager. i recommend a visit.

That McDonald's has closed and is now inhabited by DePaul (some sort of computer lab I think). There's a new McDonald's at Adams & Wabash, though I haven't noticed any particularly remarkable spelling errors on its signs...

― mck (mck), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

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