Now that computers are doing a lot of editing, grammatical and spelling errors are creeping into books, newspapers and even public signs.
And
it seems, in the name of economic use of words, nouns are being employed as
verbs. There was this award ceremony were sportsmen were medaled (with
medals?).
And
have you noticed in books that where once upon a time it was ‘he lit his cigarette’ it's now ‘he lighted his cigarette’.
To
think we used to correct our children when they’d say, ‘I bited my apple’. Were
they already a step ahead of us?
But
the other day, as we visited a shopping carpark, there was a public sign that
must have been created by a computer.
Because
the carpark is so crowded the powers that be have decided to place restrictions
on how long you can park your car before having to pay a fee.
It
bemuses me, that problems of scarcity are always countered by introducing a fee.
Do fees actually create more parking spaces? What sort of equation was used, I
wonder.
a.
In the past there have not been enough parking spaces for people when this area was predominantly
populated by single dwellings of 2 and a half people each
b.
By introducing a fee
c.
There will be enough parking spots for the increased population generated by
many of those single dwellings having been turned into multi storey buildings housing hundreds of
people.
I
don’t get it. But, as the television advertisement says, ‘That’s why (they) are
there, and I’m down here’.
In
any case, I digress. About this sign. I would have hardly noticed it, but some
outraged grammarian saw the error, and couldn’t help but point it out.
Maximum three hour customer parking
Fee’s apply for Terms and Condition Breaches
And the correction - There is no apostrophe in ‘fees’
Also
the type of buildings which are now supplanting single dwellings of two and a half
people, but presumably will not affect the parking scarcity if car owners have
to pay a fee.
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