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Hypothetical roadsigns
June 30th, 2004
Via Dave “RSS is a cure for cancer” Winer, a hypothetical roadsign.
My current motorway irritation (which is entirely an irritation as a result of reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves) are the signs on the M1 which read “Don’t drive tired”. Don’t drive tired what? If what you mean is “don’t drive while tired”, then say so…
And they’re made doubly-annoying because they’re usually preceded by the same kind of signs with a placard tied to them reading “Sign Not Yet In Use”. Which I’m sure is a split infinitive, or something similar, but it just sounds so terribly grammatically over-precise.
Maybe I get annoyed by “Sign Not Yet In Use” because I’m driving tired…?
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