Re: poor/misleading signage

["Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

My favorite misleading sign is one they put out in Michigan every summer 
during construction reminding people that it is against the law to kill 
construction workers with your car... It says "Kill a construction worker 
$7500 and 15 years in prison." Something about it has a marketing tone and I 
feel like it is saying "For a mere $7500 and 15 years in prison, you may 
kill a construction worker." I always get the urge to haggle and see if I 
can kill two for only $14,000 and 25 years or something. It is very badly 
written.

Then again...my ex was a construction worker...so I can never tell if I am 
just over-editing...or if I just need a really good shrink! :)

Melissa





>From: Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca>
>To: Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, Techwr-l 
><techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: Re: poor/misleading signage
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
>
>--- Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > But it COULD mean:
> >
> > "Weapons concealed, or otherwise are prohibited on
> > these premises"
>
>I don't think that the "rules" of English grammar
>(such as they are) allow you to make an elliptical
>clause by dropping "must be":
>
>"Weapons [must be] concealed, or otherwise are
>prohibited on these premises.
>
>Or did you have something else in mind?
>
>Milan
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