April 25, 2004

Misplaced, Comma

As I'm sure a good number of you know, I have been called a "Grammar Nazi" on more than one occasion. While I believe that is going a bit extreme, I enjoy being seen as a person who knows the grammatical rules of the English language.

Naturally, I almost went into shock today when I saw the following on a billboard:

"We support those, who served."

How can you massacre punctuation in a simple sentence on a billboard? I could understand a mistake in punctuation in a more complex sentence in a paper, but how can anyone let something that horrible slip by without someone noticing it?

How are these people still alive?

Posted by Randy at April 25, 2004 08:35 PM | TrackBack
Comments

NEIN!!

*hefts the Grammar Stick*
*goes hunting for bilboard-writers*

Posted by: Martinez at April 26, 2004 09:43 AM

You just now noticed that sign? It's been driving me crazy for at least 2 years. I should go paint over it or something.

Posted by: Eliot at April 26, 2004 10:38 AM

I've driven by it multiple times. I simply hadn't looked at the billboard until yesterday evening. Now that I've noticed I will probably see it every time I drive down that road.

Posted by: Randy at April 26, 2004 01:40 PM

where is this billboard?

Posted by: banana at April 26, 2004 09:07 PM

I don't want to know where this billboard is...wait, yes, I do, so I can forever avoid it.

Posted by: Barbour at April 28, 2004 12:06 AM

*shrug*

Meh.

Posted by: Amare Hubris at April 28, 2004 08:39 PM
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