Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[Lise]

heh heh heh heh heh.

What country does "siwss" cheese come from, anyway?

OK, now you've asked for it. I've been resisiting posting this, although I don't know why. There is a beautifully printed sign, laminated, on every door to a patient's room on the "mother-baby" unit at the hospital. They're new, as of last week. Each lovely sign has a touching picture of a baby of one ethnicity or other. The sign reads:

Baby's Are Precious! Wash Your Hands!

I was going to point out the lawless apostrophe abuse, but then I thought. They don't care. And these signs cost money. They're not going to change them. Then I'll be all the more irritated. I just try not to look at them. Focus on the cute babies! Do not look at the misused apostrophe! Go to the cafeteria! Wrestle a sandwich into submission!

[SadieKate]

Now see, I think that "Baby's" instead of "Babies" is unprofessional and lessens the credibiity of the medical institution. If they can't get a simple sign correct, what else can't they do right? I'd report it to Marketing immediately. It's a poor reflection on the organization.

It's not like a wayward piece of cheese.

[Lise]

Now see, I think that "Baby's" instead of "Babies" is unprofessional and lessens the credibiity of the medical institution. If they can't get a simple sign correct, what else can't they do right? I'd report it to Marketing immediately. It's a poor reflection on the organization.

It's not like a wayward piece of cheese.

Sigh. You're right. The dilemma is how to do that without pissing off whomever lovingly made the signs...hmmm. Thinking to whom to mention it. Someone with enough power to change it, but enough sense not to rat me out.

They replace signs that had a teddy bear with a broken arm in a sling which read, "Don't forget to rate your patient's pain!" Why, cuz having a baby is just like being a teddy bear with a broken arm? Oh, hospitals are strange places...

[teawoman]

Now see, I think that "Baby's" instead of "Babies" is unprofessional and lessens the credibiity of the medical institution. If they can't get a simple sign correct, what else can't they do right? I'd report it to Marketing immediately. It's a poor reflection on the organization.

It's not like a wayward piece of cheese.

Amen.

[Duck on Wheels]

Baby's Are Precious! Wash Your Hands!

Maybe what they mean is that baby's hands are so precious they don't need washing, but YOURS do.

[fixedgeargirl]

Baby's Are Precious! Wash Your Hands!

Maybe the text was written in a doctor's handwriting, and it was all the poor folks in the sign shop could do to decipher it . I've worked in a sign shop, you're supposed to make the sign the way the customer orders it, abused apostrophes and all .

[Geonz]

I carry a sharpie for such occurrences. If they don't care about the apostrophe abuse, they shouldn't care about graffiti.

[fixedgeargirl]

I used to work the opening shift in a bagel shop. Most mornings I'd unlock the door, and there they'd be, ham and swiss sandwiches running amok over counter and chair! There were dozens of them, and only one of me. After much running around, brandishing of serrated knives and threats of trips through the broiler, I'd finally get all those little buggers rounded up, mastered, just in time to open shop!



I'm just glad I didn't have to squeeze the orangutans!

[AuntieK]

Every day I drive past a mechanic's shop where they have a large banner out in front which reads,

"Ladie's Day on Wednesdays."

I wonder, "Who is this Ladie and why does she get special treatment on Wednesday?

I have to agree with SadieKate that it refects badly on the organization. I don't think I would trust that mechanic's shop just because of the sign!

[slinkedog]

I used to work the opening shift in a bagel shop. Most mornings I'd unlock the door, and there they'd be, ham and swiss sandwiches running amok over counter and chair! There were dozens of them, and only one of me. After much running around, brandishing of serrated knives and threats of trips through the broiler, I'd finally get all those little buggers rounded up, mastered, just in time to open shop!



I'm just glad I didn't have to squeeze the orangutans!

LOL! That's for a good laugh this morning!

[Dianyla]

I'm just glad I didn't have to squeeze the orangutans!

Squeeze them? Or milk them?

I work in IT department and our team meetings look like a League of Nations assembly. I get engrish every day via email. Here's an example from today:

"And I'll lave at 5 pm tomorrow to see motorgate* broker."


* She's buying a house.

[Lise]

It seems that email has obviated the need to even use English, much less spell it correctly, or compose sentences with any grace. Here's a line from last night's exchange with an online maybe-date:

"Lise...the same. Thank you. I am very non eecky." (and it went on, a bit more coherently)

I wrote back, asking, "what does 'non-eecky' mean?"

He replied, "I guess I am trying to telll I reread your profile and we "may" match... "May"...

At that point, I gave up. I may, or may not ever know what "eecky", or, for that matter, "non eecky" might be. L.

[maillotpois]

Boy, doesn't your mind just come up with all sorts of possible meanings for that????

[Lise]

It seems that email has obviated the need to even use English, much less spell it correctly, or compose sentences with any grace. Here's a line from last night's exchange with an online maybe-date:

"Lise...the same. Thank you. I am very non eecky." (and it went on, a bit more coherently)

I wrote back, asking, "what does 'non-eecky' mean?"

He replied, "I guess I am trying to telll I reread your profile and we "may" match... "May"...

At that point, I gave up. I may, or may not ever know what "eecky", or, for that matter, "non eecky" might be. L.

I love it that this thread's not dead!

And now, I will reply by quoting MYSELF from 16 months ago.

The scenario: I was on match.com (btw, I am now happily off match.com and in love with a wonderful guy --not the one cited above-- so the system can work...), and emailing with the above cited guy. We did meet. I asked him what "non-eecky" meant. He said he was trying to reassure me that he was "not icky". Not a creep. Except. That he turned out to be a creep. We had a nice first date, made a date to see each other again, which he canceled by email at midnight the night before. Then, 3 months later, he sends an email begging my forgiveness, telling me he'd been in a horrible car crash, and was recovering...I had my doubts, but wrote him back. "When", I asked, "was this accident?" Two weeks ago. Oh, you mean 2.5 months after you blew me off? You Sir, are EECKY!

[Brandy]

Mastered, mustard...it's all the same to me. What really bothers me is that the siwss cheese doesn't appear to be siwss at all. It looks like cheddar.