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Grammar "Police" Punished

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2ffat

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Oct 23, 1998
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Think twice about becoming the Grammar Police.




James P. Cottingham
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I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229!
 
James, Note that their offense was not correcting bad grammar, but defacing government property.

We have a pair of government-sponsored signs in a nearby parking lot. The signs drive me nuts:
Handicap Accessable
Sheesh!

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”
 
Send them here! Lot's of errors to be corrected!
Shoot, we can keep them in work forever!
Darn, I just can't get it wrong! #*%##* english classes!
Lexicographers rule!

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97
 
I wonder if one could argue that misspellings in "our" signs constitute in and of themselves a defacement, or that we the people have the God-given duty to provide education along private lines where the public as a whole have fallen deficient.
 
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