In case of fire WHAT???

[2ffat]

Here's another one to file under, "Why you should have learned to spell in school." Look at the sign before reading the article.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/3584373

James P. Cottingham
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[Opieo]

had agreed to replace the faulty signs with new ones soon.

What?
How is the sign faulty?
Does it fail to be a sign?
I think it still gets the message across, even without the 'g'.
So I fail to understand how the sign is faulty.
Less than perfect or desired, sure, but faulty?

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“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky, and loaded with danger.” — Ace Ventura.

 

[Stella740pl]

How is the sign faulty?
Does it fail to be a sign?

Well, it is still a sign.
But it fails to be a sign that is taken seriously.

 

[JBinQLD]

The nerd that sits there on his blackberry chuckling about lack of G and writing a letter of complaint to his local council probably deserves the natural selection about to consume him. In fact, his partially written email will almost certainly assure him a Darwin Award


JB

 

[unixfreak]

What's an 'elevator'?

 

[AnotherHiggins]

That's what we yanks call a lift.

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[unixfreak]

Well, the 'elevator' bit made it more unreadable than the missing 'g'. In fact I had to read it several times till I realised it was missing...

 

[GSCaupling]

So much for "conventional wisdom." I wanna be from somewhere else... I wonder if the person who caught it said, "Ah, geez!

 

[SamBones]

So I fail to understand how the sign is faulty.

The word "faulty" just means that the sign has faults, not that it doesn't correctly fulfill it's mission as a sign. The fault is a missing "g" in the word "Emergency".

 

[kjv1611]

==>Well, the 'elevator' bit made it more unreadable than the missing 'g'. In fact I had to read it several times till I realised it was missing...

Well, in Raleigh, NC, it makes sense to use elevator instead of lift. I had forgotten that it's called a lift in other places. So in that sense, there is no fault.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[edfair]

I would suspect that more than 99% of the people in the US would have missed the error. The signs are by every elevator door and once you have read one, there is no reason to read another, and their presencem recognized or not, is a reminder.

Let me guess, the sign maker was using a windows machine to control the sign machine and windows skipped a letter. Not that I have ever seen windows do that.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[stackdump]

Yeah right, and maybe the font was too large and the sign writer dropped a letter to fit it all in.

Not sure why we bother with signs actually. It's like the signs that say "Pull" or "Push" on a door to a shop. If you watch people, about 50% try to pull instead of push and vice versa.

Errors can also be hard to notice, my local sports center offers Tramoplining tuition. There is a road junction near me that has the word "SLOM" painted on it (instead of SLOW). All depends on how its worded I guess, like the old chestnut...

The is the simplest mistake in
in the world.

 

[2ffat]

I can imagine some shyster lawyer suing the building when his client gets burned in a fire while in the elevator.

"Well Judge, my client couldn't understand the sign when it said "emerency" so he rode the elevator and got burned."

I can also imagine some judge agreeing with him, too.



James P. Cottingham
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I'm number 1,229!}

 

[Opieo]

Not sure why we bother with signs actually. It's like the signs that say "Pull" or "Push" on a door to a shop. If you watch people, about 50% try to pull instead of push and vice versa.

So true. I do that too, even when I read the sign ...

I can also imagine some judge agreeing with him, too.

Sad, isn't it?

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“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky, and loaded with danger.” — Ace Ventura.

 

[Stella740pl]

Not sure why we bother with signs actually.
...
I can also imagine some judge agreeing with him, too.

For the purpose of avoiding liability, probably?

 

[philhege]

One of the banner ads on this very page, for the University of Phoenix online, reads:
[spoiler UOP]I am a: Employee[/spoiler]
So much for dynamic labeling.

Phil H.
Some Bank
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Time's fun when you're having flies.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Emerency-the-Mother-of-St-Anne-Posters_i1593799_.htm

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Opieo]

She must be the only one who would still try to use the elevator in a fire if they made signs just for her.

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“Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky, and loaded with danger.” — Ace Ventura.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

No, in fact she's the only one, who's asked to use the stairs.

In Fire, Emerency, do not use Elevator, use exit stairs.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Oh, I see your point. You mean she's the only one one would need to remind to use the stairs.

Bye, Olaf.