“Please Watch Out For Your Belongings!”
This warning, spotted in The Clementi Mall, makes it sound like the belongings themselves are dangerous, like a sign that says “Beware of Dog” or “Watch Out for Falling Rocks”, though admittedly neither of...
Category: oops
Pesky ‘with’
When I read this: Dumex, proudly nurturing Singapore babies with global expertise and experience. I thought, Wow, Singapore babies have global expertise and experience? The preposition ‘with’ is ambiguous. It could mean ‘having’ (which...
Did you know?
Five times more people are learning English in China than there are people in England. Wow.
Business hours
Common messages relating to business hours are often distorted here in Singapore. Sometimes the sign says ‘business hours’, sometimes it says ‘operating hours’, sometimes it says ‘operation hours’, sometimes it says ‘opening hours’. I...
Redundanancy
Today at Parkway Parade I saw a sign on a cosmetics store that said “powerful-strength line-reducing concentrate”. I read it as an advertisement for a reducer of ‘strength lines’ and momentarily wondered what a...