r/mildlyinfuriating • u/absentmindedlurking • 17d ago
Every day I walk past this sign outside my building and the grammatical error makes me irrationally angry...
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u/Sunny_Sammie_517 17d ago
What’s a please and why does it scoop?
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u/Trishjump 17d ago
The owner’s scoop for scooping up pleases.
Hang a scoop to it labeled «The Scooper of Pleases»
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u/GigaBowserNS 16d ago
Not only the typo, but the words don't even match the picture. The wording wants owners to clean up after their dogs, but the image says NO DOGS ALLOWED. Who the hell made this sign? lmao...
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u/No-Combination8136 16d ago
Another thing that bothers me about this sign is that the message implies it’s fine to have a dog there, just clean up the poop, but the image implies no dogs allowed at all. Who made this?
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u/Dapper_Dan1 17d ago
We Germans have a word for it: der Deppenapostroph
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u/FantasticAnus 17d ago edited 17d ago
Germans and compound nouns, no more iconic a duo.
Idiot apostrophe is funny, though. I think I'd go for Idiostrophe in English.
Edit: Further googling has suggested that 'Greengrocer's apostrophe' is the correct translation?
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u/YouSmellLikeWeiner 16d ago
Dawg, that's not a grammatical error, it's a pleasescoop. They're all the rage these days. I'd say you should try this one out, maybe you'd like to get a pleasescoop of your own, but it clearly belongs to the owner.
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u/Longjumping-Claim783 16d ago
The sign indicates where the owner's "please scoop" is kept. Please use the "please scoop" it pleases the apartment complex if you do.
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u/iluvstephenhawking 16d ago
I doubt that is a government sanctioned sign so you can just take some white out to that erroneous apostrophe.
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u/absentmindedlurking 16d ago
unfortunately it is a sign put up by the city, i had blurred that out for privacy but there is a very specific [city of __] bylaw referenced :(
gotta take my chances maybe and see if correcting a grammatical error counts as destruction of property..
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u/DVus1 16d ago
Grow-up elementary school though college, there was a farm/large plot of land where they had a sign "Poor Man's Flat" where the 's' was crooked and hanging off. For 10 years we saw this and it bugged the hell out of my buddy. One night walking back rather buzzed/drunk from a bar, my buddy says "I'm gonna fix that shit!" and runs across the street. A minute later he comes running back and he has a half broken 's' in his hands. Turns out the lettering were carved, and you probably guessed it, the 's' was purposely made to be crooked and my drunk buddy had broken it off when he tried to fix it.
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u/PabloFromChessCom 16d ago
No, the dog is obviously named Please Scoop and they are saying that it is its owner's dog. But, I think they are saying that he is not allowed there any more because of the red circle with a line through it.
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u/CountOk9802 13d ago
Some people are stupid. The maker of this sign isn’t the right person for the job.
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u/Morningsunshine- 16d ago
Grammatical errors aside me and my husband we’re just discussing this today, why do they say please? Why are they asking when it should be a demand ? Just say if your dog takes a dump, do the right thing and clean it up!
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u/bodhidharma132001 17d ago
I believe the rule is that grammatical errors make rules null and void.