Vancouver’s new smoking regulations have resulted in a flurry of horribly misspelled, badly punctuated, and otherwise disgusting new signs on patios all over Vancouver.

Is it really that difficult to spell-check? Must you really say that smoking is “prohibbitted”?

This recent flurry of terrible abuses of the English language made me want to do some walk-by editing with a big, fat Sharpie. But, as a well-behaved editor, I’m more inclined to go home and whinge about it on my blog.