Posted on 02/27/2023 3:17:07 AM PST by DFG
The city Department of Transportation struck out on this one.
Big Apple DOT officials botched a Queens road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway, misspelling the color-barrier-busting baseball Hall of Famer’s name.
The sign at Myrtle Avenue and Forest Park Drive features a likeness of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great — atop the words “Jakie Robinson Parkway.”
“It’s embarrassing,” Glendale native Kira Incantalupo told The Post on Sunday. “Poor Jackie Robinson.
“That shouldn’t have happened,” said Incantalupo, 37. “I mean, nobody wants to have that. It’s a memorial for somebody. It should be corrected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
After I posted that, I wondered if you were being funny. I am going with it being funny. Lol.
School employee fired for tweet aimed at student’s spelling
https://apnews.com/article/53cb7dddd90b47f08245c8a75aa3cc38
Profs declare correct grammar is racist, no such thing as standard English at symposium
Thank a (union) teacher.
“The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”
Well, on a positive note, if the new 85,000 IRS agents being hired can’t spell or do math, we don’t have much to worry about.
TODAY’S students cannot spell STOP
The article didn’t say how many misspelled Jackie Robinson signs were in place, or what the cost to replace them all would be. And there will be lawsuits by the offended victims.
She’s right, of course. But hopefully, there’s never a “Kira Incantalupo” freeway. Imagine the misspelling possibilities with that name...
I think he played for every major league team. 42 is retired MLB-wide.
Did they ever fix Elvis Aron Presley’s tombstone? (They spelled it Aaron rather than Aron).
“42 is retired MLB-wide”
Yup—pathetic.
In the old days every roadside inn claimed that “George Washington slept here”—modern variation on the scam.
The sign was designed by a diversity hire, no doubt.
I hold the guy who hung the sign more responsible than the guy who made it.
I saw some parking spots with the label “service vehilces only. Spelled out the same way on 6 parking spots.
Jakay!
“Great googly moogly!”
Bttt
The guy who hung the sign probably knew that a member of America’s Royal Race made the sign—and knew that offending the Royal Family meant they would be fired.
Good point.
‘Jakie’ was probably is true name, and spelling it ‘Jackie’ was forced on him by his oppressors.
Jakie is Scottish slang from a homeless alcoholic.
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