I want, I WANT!!!!!!

[tailwagging]

wonderful CL ad

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/grd/3700940618.html

 

[Dood]

AWESOME! I want one too!

We've been here 28 years and some 'estate' houses have cropped up. 'Someone' sent the by-law people over due to excessive noise, we told the officer to fine the roosters and not us.

Thankfully most new neighbours have been great, are regular customers for our products and have help expand our clientele by telling their friends.

 

[Bad Habit]

The grammatical error really bothers me.

 

[Dood]

Odour is spelled correctly for American English.

 

[Happy]

Considering the kinds of Puget Sound snobbery that they likely deal with, I can imagine that they sell A LOT of those signs.<br /><br />__________ Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:31 pm __________<br /><br />Reposted it on Facebook.

 

[Bad Habit]

Odour is spelled correctly for American English.

That's not what I was talking about. That would be a spelling error, lol.

The grammatical error is Animals Make. It should be

Animals :
Make Funny Sounds
Smell Bad, And
Have Sex Outdoors

When I read it how it is written, it reads like this.

Animals :
Make Funny Sounds
Make Smell Bad, And
Make Have Sex Outdoors

 

[Happy]

While we're being pedantic it's only fair to point out that's not a grammatical mistake, it's a punctuation error.

 

[Bad Habit]

I consider punctuation errors to fall under grammatical errors.

 

[Frosted Rabbits]

Punctuation--
Let's eat Dad.
vs
Let's eat, Dad

Grammar---
I shot a hair.
I gots me a new toy
I done gone on vacation.
There done working.


We have several of those Farm Signs in this area. City folk move out this way, thinking it is going to be nice and quiet, with no obnoxious odors-- then, they wake up at 6 one morning, to the sound of a portable sawmill-- yep, a neighbor is logging! And the roosters! Oh, the donkey, too.. And lets not forget-- in some places, despite being heavily wooded and homes being far apart-- you can hear your neighbors conversations!!! Then, at night-- the first time a city fella hears a Screech owl-- and the screams of a small animal as the hawk takes it---

 

[Happy]

I shot a hair.
...
There done working.

these are spelling mistakes. Granted, they're of a type that SEEMS like a grammatical error, but to be a grammatical error, then the speaker would have to not have meant "hare" or "they're", in which case the issue is less a matter of education and more a matter of insanity.

 

[tailwagging]

it all sound country ter me :cowboy:

 

[MaggieJ]

My goodness, let's not pick at all the language mistakes that abound and let's not pound semantics to death. :bdh:

I may cringe when I see these types of errros (being a person who values good communication) but I've learned to be a bit tolerant. Many people did not have the benefit of proper instruction in grammar, punctuation and spelling while they were in school.

 

[Bad Habit]

My goodness, let's not pick at all the language mistakes that abound and let's not pound semantics to death. :bdh:

I may cringe when I see these types of errros (being a person who values good communication) but I've learned to be a bit tolerant. Many people did not have the benefit of proper instruction in grammar, punctuation and spelling while they were in school.

I have to ask, intentional or irony?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

My goodness, let's not pick at all the language mistakes that abound and let's not pound semantics to death. :bdh:

I may cringe when I see these types of errros (being a person who values good communication) but I've learned to be a bit tolerant. Many people did not have the benefit of proper instruction in grammar, punctuation and spelling while they were in school.

I have to ask, intentional or irony?

Bah-ha-ha! An ironic typo!

 

[MaggieJ]

LOL. Just a typo, I'm afraid. But I'm going to leave it, because even those of us who value good language skills make mistakes on occasion.

 

[Wyldrose]

Love those signs!!!

Good way to teach sex ed to kids is drive through the country in the spring time lol!

Edit: I need a new keybord!!

 

[Bad Habit]

LOL. Just a typo, I'm afraid. But I'm going to leave it, because even those of us who value good language skills make mistakes on occasion.

I would have let it go, but I was really hoping you'd say it was irony, and put there to poke fun at us, lol.

 

[trinityoaks]

Love those signs (grammatical error notwithstanding).