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Maybe “you” should learn what quotation marks are for…

Again, I must say that I understand Internet advertising may be an unfair place to go looking for grammatical and punctuation screw-ups. But still — I couldn’t ignore this ad:

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What on earth does the person who wrote this ad think those quotation marks mean? Probably the same thing as the guy who wrote the sign I used to pass by at the skytrain station that read:

We prepare “fresh” food daily.

*sigh*

This was written by Christina. Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 9:21 pm. Filed under Rants, Scary reads. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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