Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Advertisements With Bad Grammar



The advertisement has an immense amount of grammatical errors in it.  The banner looked in the beginning to have the word cappuccino spelled “capochinu” and the word latte spelled “latel”. To make matters worse, it appears that the business owners that placed the sign on display noticed a few of the banners errors and attempted to make corrections themselves. After the owner had his way with the banner, cappuccino became “capachino” and latte became “late.” Never mind the fact that hot soup is missing a space and has ineffectively been turned its own new word “hotsoup.” The grammatically correct version of the advertisement would probably read:
Hot Coffee Available Here
Cappuccino, Black Coffee, Café Latte, Tea & Hot Soup

Personally, I would never go near a café with something like this in front of it. It makes the business look cheap because they were unwilling to pay to have the changes corrected before putting in out on display. It also makes the owners look completely incompetent because they are incapable of spelling the products that they offer correctly. I would have to assume that this banner is the product of business owners that are not well-versed in English trying to attract tourists. It looks extremely bad and probably dissuades most people from going inside. 

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