Canadian Doppelganger

Yesterday, while I was wandering through Victoria, I spotted this sign:

I wouldn’t normally take much note of a sign like this–it’s about a fast food chain I don’t give a rip about opening in a city I have visited a grand total of once, but the incorrect use of “your” instead of “you’re” grabbed my eyes like high-powered magnets. Excuse me for being Golgar the Grammarian but those sorts of errors are maddening to me, given that the company is enormous and several sets of eyes had to pass over this before it was approved to go to press and not ONE person noticed it. Particularly given that all of these people are gainfully employed, but as the gentleman at the unemployment office told me on Tuesday “You no have education, that why no one give you job.”

When I got home and looked at the photo on my computer, I noticed that someone else also felt some self-righteous grammar rage:

Thank you, grammar rage twin. Thank you.

5 Comments Canadian Doppelganger

  1. Sharon September 2, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    I think it COULD be grammatically correct. If you think of it as a specific type of hungry. We are Fatburger and we know how to take care of you because we know exactly what kind of hungry you are. We are committed to addressing your particular type of hunger. In other words, we know YOUR hungry.

    Or maybe it is some incredibly clever scheme to get people to blog about it and give them free advertising. :-p

    Or maybe they’re just stupid.

    1. Mellzah September 2, 2011 at 10:47 pm

      Ooh, good one! Even in that context, I think I would prefer, “We know your hunger”, but I like the way you think.

  2. MsChilePepper September 3, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Aaaaand that why I always roll with a Sharpie in my bag. Because there’s NO WAY I could have resisted fixing that damn sign. I’ve done it before, I’ll do it again!

  3. Sandra September 3, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    I’m on a low carb diet, so I would never read a sign advertising a burger for fear I might eat the the sign to compensate for lack of carbs.

    1. Mellzah September 4, 2011 at 7:13 am

      hahahaha I love carbs, I don’t think I could ever willingly give them up.

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