Ever notice hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L? It looks like an uppercase i ...
WHY DO PEOPlE WRITE lIKE THIS?
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
PlEASE THAKS
Elizabeth found this note taped to a soda machine at a junk yard in Provo, Utah. Could this author have been trying to save space by making the L lowercase, and also excluding the N in THAKS? That would be the clever thing to do.
When I was in Saudi Arabia, I visited a PX that had a hand-written sign on the door. At the bottom of the sign was the compound word "THANKSLOT," which I assumed was how the Saudis thought the phrase "Thanks a lot" was written.
i bet it was supposed to be "please take" but the writer messed up at the last scenod.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in Saudi Arabia, I visited a PX that had a hand-written sign on the door. At the bottom of the sign was the compound word "THANKSLOT," which I assumed was how the Saudis thought the phrase "Thanks a lot" was written.
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