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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts 
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We recently received in the mail the Local Flavor magazine: ads for local businesses.
On the cover was an ad for a wine bar, offering a Valentine's Day special: a gourmet 3-course pre-fix feast (later, a special pre-fix menu, at $69 per person). I presume that they meant prix fixe: French for fixed price (and pronounced <pre feeks>). I also presume that if you want dessert with your feast, that would be the . . . wait for it . . . suff-fix. |
NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts
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Well, as possibly the most overly dramatic person ever to have lived, I'll stay silent on this.
What gets me are so many signs that are designed, proof read, and made - with obvious spelling errors. There is a florist near my house that tells you to "Express you're fellings with flowers." They also tell you that you'll receive a free "vace" with a twenty dollar purchase. They also sell "ballons". Maybe they should use Goggle.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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I saw a sign in Key Largo that advertised "Sweat Corn".
As the undisputed KING of spelling mistakes and poor grammar I am offended when people in business do these things. The one that bothers me the most though is when I see a Pre School sign that spells the word school "skool" and has backwards letters and such. As if I want them to teach the kids to be that dumb?
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts
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Well, I am sure that you all revel in your own smartitude.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Feb 1, 2018, 0pus wrote: You'd rather that people revel in their stupiditudity? |
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts
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On Feb 1, 2018, S2000magician wrote: I thought the word was "stupididity." I believe you had one syllabub too many. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Feb 1, 2018, 0pus wrote: This from the author of "smartitude". |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On Feb 1, 2018, S2000magician wrote: Some interesting observations here: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/08/prix-fixe.html I'll just excerpt this amusing bit: The English writer Jeanette Winterson once asked a man working at a Vietnamese restaurant in New York why the signboard in front offered a "Pre Fix Menu." In a July 11, 2006, entry on her website, she gives his explanation: “ ‘" 'We fix the Specials of the Day every morning,' he explained, 'but before we fix those, we fix the set menu of the day, so that’s why it’s called a Pre Fix.' " 
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Steven Keyl Inner circle Washington, D.C. 2630 Posts
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Don't you just love it when people try to sound sophisticated? Indubitably!
Steven Keyl - The Human Whisperer!
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