CongraTulations/ CongraDulations

**Karen** · 10-30-2006, 09:12 AM

Twisterdog - you'd just love a local company's sign. They are a landscaping company, and do paving work as well. But the sign they put on people's lawns has their name at the top and "asphalt paving" in the middle - I always think, I wonder what they really use, if not asphalt?

**Lady's Human** · 10-30-2006, 10:24 AM

Karen,

Concrete.

**Cataholic** · 10-30-2006, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Twisterdog

I recently saw a sign on the sign board outside our local junior high school that said, "School is in. Drive safe." Drive SAFE? On a sign at a SCHOOL? How about "safely"?

While I might not catch the adverb thing, I am always struck by the stupidity of the comment. I see this and think, Okay! Drive like a lunatic when school is NOT in session. All the kids are running around outside the school grounds, and the sign encourages one (by negative inference) to drive like a lunatic.

Or, really, when the kids ARE all secure in the school building, that WOULD really be the best time to drive like a lunatic. I think a little bit too much sometimes.

Originally Posted by Twisterdog

Another thing that irritates me is the misuse of quotation marks. On a menu in a cafe we ate at recently: "Try our "great" apple pie!" Now, I'm sure they were trying for emphasis, "Try our GREAT apple pie!" or "Try our great apple pie." But, of course, by enclosing it in quotation marks, what they were really saying was, "Try our not-so-great apple pie."

That sends me up the wall. I see these beautiful signs, new signs, specially made signs, with quotes on them!!! ARGH!!! (Apostrophes also get me going.)

**RedHedd** · 10-30-2006, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Cataholic

While (Apostrophes also get me going.)

Or the lack thereof .... I'm seeing WAY too much Im, Dont, etc. and its (sic) driving me up the wall!

Does everyone have a broken keyboard or are they just lazy or stupid?

**Karen** · 10-30-2006, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Karen,

Concrete.

But they did Paul's mom's driveway, and it looks, feels and smells like asphalt ...

**Twisterdog** · 10-30-2006, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Karen,

Concrete.

I guess I always thought the same as Karen ... when it is "pavement" or has been "paved", it is asphalt. When it has been "poured" or "laid", it is concrete. No?

Oh, yes, the infamous missing apostrophe.