So I was driving to work today behind a truck that was being used to advertise their business — some kind of tiling business. On the back of their truck, in big, bold, white letters, is the company’s slogan, apparently.
“We’re Taken Over”
Now maybe it’s just me, but I laughed out loud, nearly spewing coffee from my nose when I saw this. Maybe they meant “We’re Takin’ Over.” But “We’re Taken Over” hardly seems to be something to proclaim loudly to the world in an attempt to market your company. As in, woohoo, somebody just done bought us out, y’all. Yep. Mmm hmm.
I know that I’m a total grammar and spelling junkie. I admit it. I have a problem. I correct my husband all the time with pronunciation, etc. I go nuts when my students send me emails in “textese.” And I rip them apart for sloppy, badly written work.
But this was just a grammatical mistake that was so impossibly funny!!!
It kills me. People are just idiots. To spend all of that money on having one’s business truck professionally painted, just to mis-spell and completely alter the intent of your message.
On an unrelated note, the boy and I went to see Blindness on Sunday afternoon. Interesting. I’ll post more later.
I’m so glad that there are other people out there who notice these things. Stuff like this drives me (slightly) bonkers. If I mention it to E, he loves to go off on his pontification of how language is fluid and so grammar is meaningless, which then I stomp all over. Good times.
Wouldn’t it be a great experiment, to have a “typo” like that, just to see how many people would call in to complain about it?
Coffee out of the nose – great visual.
(I’m way behind on my reading!)