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'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com)

Posted by msmash on from the silent-guardian dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A self-confessed "grammar vigilante" has been secretly correcting bad punctuation on street signs and shop fronts in Bristol for more than a decade. The anonymous crusader carries out his work in the dead of night using the "Apostrophiser" -- a long-handled tool he created to reach the highest signs. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality.

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  1. Re:Bansky? by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need a grammar vigilante to come here and correct the misspelling in your subject.

  2. Re:Why is this even on Slashdot? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering the amount of misspelled words and improper usage (their/there/they're or break/brake), it might be a not-so-subtle hint to get your act together.

    If you don't think proper grammar is important, then you probably don't believe proper coding is important either.

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  3. Re:idiots like this on stackflow by lgw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You want help specifically from pedantic nerds, but you can't be bothered to speak their language? Further, you're upset about the very personality traits that make them able to help you?

    Just go back to Facebook and Twitter. You fit in there. You don't fit in here.
     

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  4. Re:Why is this even on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Grammar, it's the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.

  5. Similar sign-fixer in Los Angeles by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few years ago a local artist improved a confusing L.A. freeway sign, making an interstate number shield in the process:

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...

    https://www.good.is/articles/t...

    http://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed...

    One down, 9,999 to go...

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  6. Re: As long as it's just apostrophes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not less but fewer. ...ten or fewer items...

    Items are countable.

  7. Re:Wrong Criminal by fnj · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who's job

    Bwahahaha!

  8. Re: Why is this even on Slashdot? by denzacar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "A count is also a measure."

    Only if accompanied by a unit

    Occasionally, a count is a vampire.
    And number is how you feel after he sucks the blood out of your body.

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