Friday, October 17, 2008

Hair it Izz !

Have you stop to really pay attention to the prints in some ads or on signs? I have been noticing that the people who put ads or signs out to public places do not check their spelling! It is so annoying . I understand when they are using PUN but what about when they are not? Is it that difficult to check spelling before posting these ads?
Like my title Hair It Izz, I know these folks are using pun and it is smart. This is the name of a barber shop. I have seen even posts on my university campus with incorrect spelling! Yes!
Here are a few examples of some of the stuff I have seen in ads, on posters and business places permanent signs. Recently, while reading an ad on campus I saw this sentence: It will be anD enticing evening! People come on. The word AND should have been AN. Next in an ad I saw on my mailbox : Come out and meAt new people! Are you kidding me? This seemed to me that whomever attended were cannibalized! As far as my memory serves me, the correct word should have been meEt. One of the most common ones I have seen is this one: toMMorrow... Could we just take a moment to spell check before posting? The word spelt with one letter M and two letter Rs. So it would be tomoRRow.
Can you imagine eating at a restaurant where they have bad spelling? The same errors they make in their spellings may have spilled over in their recipes and their incorrect proportions in their recipes! This is serious. On a popular restaurant here in Georgia which has been around for over 15 years, they have this beautiful painted sign on their glass : CaRRibean Restaurant...Caribbean has One letter R and two letter Bs. I hope these people who painted this sign were not from the CariBBean!
Sometimes I get or take the opportunity to let the folks responsible about these errors but at times you have no contact for some. Shame, shame, shame! We should start putting a ticketing system in place where persons guilty of these incorrect spellings in ads and on public readings be charged.What do you think?

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

MEN...

I am so curious about certain things in life. I always take note of words. Have you noticed how certain words with particular meanings are questionable while others are not. For example MENtal illness, MENopause,MENsturation, MENdacious, MENingitis and the list could go on. Do you see what I am getting at?
From all my readings and experience I have noticed that all these mean something that either affect women in some negative light or affect the brain in some serious ways! MEN, what do you think? What is your take? Often I would hear some women say that everything that give women pain has MEN in it. Is it true? Maybe, could be, possibly.
Well MEN, you may say that women also can cause problems but I guess that is because again the word ends with MEN! Agree? I knew you would.Well I invite you all to go research any interesting words which could have particular connections to humans to certain way. Also check out the names of certain roads and restaurants. Some sound rude to me, some appear to be questionable but who knows? For example, I saw this restaurant in Tennessee over the weekend with the name...Buddy...I was turned off because in my hometown (Jamaica) that word means the male genital so that place would not survive because we would not eat there!
Go have fun observing some of these roads, streets, restaurants, diseseases... I leave you to do futher research on this one too.Hysterectomy! Do you know the story behind this? Well, so far the statment says...If SHE gets hysterical ...CUT it OUT! Think about it.