In for a bad spell

http://www.nypost.com/ ^

[jakerobins]

Somebody who’s working for the city should learn how to S-P-E-L-L.

A slew of officials have failed to report a humiliating spelling error — “SHCOOL X-NG” — plastered on Stanton Street outside a Lower East Side high school for months.

“It’s embarrassing for the city!” laughed Luis Maldonado, 50, a maintenance worker in the area.

“Teaching kids to read and write correctly is very important!”

[jakerobins]

I wonder if they would have spelled it correctly if it was in Spanish??

[knarf]

[dirtboy]

[jiggyboy]

More likely it was the painter. That kind of thing happens from time to time.

[brytlea]

Yes, and most of the talking heads (including the ones who are supposed to be smart and college educated) use “ain’t” now as a matter of course. English language? Hell in a handbasket...

[laweeks]

Well, one of our local public screwels had this on their sign:

Happy Holiday's

And the beauty part is that we got to see that idiot sign for two weeks during their school shutdown.

And when I went to my daughter's 9th grade Open House, the English teacher, who greeted us in jeans and a torn hunting shirt, passed out a pamphlet that had 8 grammatical errors.

I was going to call the school, but . . . what the hell . . . what good would it do!

[Calvin Locke]

If it's like most union jobs, they do it on purpose to collect a pay multiplier to fix it.

One road crew supervisor in MA had a fake deer carcass. He'd toss it on the side of a road before PM rush hour, and wait for the calls to come in about it. He and his crew would be dispatched to remove it on overtime.

[Max in Utah]

“SHCOOL XING”

You just wait, some rapper will adopt this as a stage name.

[agrarianlady]

I wouldn’t have hesitated to call the school. You’re the boss — grammatical errors (especially 8!) are inexcusable.

[laweeks]

I wouldn’t have hesitated to call the school.

I teach English at a private school (where we have standards) and have written a book, so my skills are pretty good. Those errors jumped out at me.

You're right, I should have called the school and kicked some ass. My wife was afraid that if I said anything, he'd single out my daughter, a straight A student, and give her a hard time.

[WOBBLY BOB]

“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality”.- Thomas Sowell

[dainbramaged]

I worked for the State of Alaska DOT and once we had a sign come in from a vendor that said: BIEK XING.

[uncbob]

A local HS once had a billboard announcing Atheletic schedules
I called them when I got to work and said they should ask one of their English teachers to look at the billboard

It was changed when I went by on the way home

[Erasmus]

From a commercial or promo for something-or-another, years ago.

Joe the groundskeeper is just finishing up on the endzone logo, and is admiring his work. (Mind you, he’s at ground level and standing at the corner of the end zone, where his perspective makes it difficult to see any, ummm, imperfections.)

A football player wanders by. He says, “Hey—great work Joe. By the way, who are the “Chefs?”

Joe takes another look at his masterpiece and goes “Great Googly Moogly.”

[Erasmus]

In the Illuminatus! trilogy, they had a Chinese mystic and seer by the name of Ped Xing.

[agrarianlady]

I feel passionate about English Grammar. My kids take Essentials of the English Language with Classical Conversations. As a parent in the Foundations and Essentials programs, I've refreshed my own knowledge of English Grammar tremendously.

For proofreading exercises last year, we had to go no further than the local 5th-grade teacher's website, which had a dozen spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.

There's a book about this called War Against Grammar.