Endangered Species
The Washington Post thinks the fate of the sentence is in danger; Slate thinks it’s just the semicolon. I think they’re both right.
punctuation
21 June 2008
06 June 2008
KFCatastrophe
This looks like a job for The Grammar Vandal…
This note posted on the drive-thru of a KFC “restaurant” is both appalling and disgusting. I mean, just look at it:
For those who don’t have super vision, the note reads:
Due to recent robbery’s African-American’s will be charged a extra $1.50 per order.
thank you,
management
Have you ever seen anything more appalling in your entire life? Apostrophes on both “robbery’s” and “African-American’s,” and then “a” instead of “an” before “extra.” At least they hyphenated “African American’s.”
Now on to the disgusting part: This particular KFC is charging “African-American’s” more money because KFC was robbed. Where’s the logic in that? Won’t KFC have more money on hand in the event that they are robbed again? How will affirmative taxation deter additional “robbery’s”? It won’t. It will only deter patronage and rightfully so. I guess the discriminated against will now suffer from a bland and tasteless life. You know what they say, “Life tastes better with KFC.”
In KFC’s defense, this particular restaurant is located in 1864. That still doesn’t change the fact that the person who writed this note needs to be sentenced to hard labor in the Department of Corrections.
