"Curiouser and Curiouser"
Nov. 25th, 2009 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elen_nareI was walking in the city centre today, and I went past a pharmacy that had a sign consisting of a lit up green cross, with changing white writing in the middle. It said, quoting exactly what I saw, "Please don't drink and drive". Anyone see the problem with that being exactly what I saw? (See below for answer).
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I live in Argentina. We speak Spanish. And while I applaud the pharmacy for its campaign, I think it might reach more of the population if it used the language everyone speaks here. Why didn't they?
Theory 1) it's a fiendish attempt to get rid of everyone who doesn't know English.
Theory 2) it cycles through different languages (it was raining, I didn't wait to see)
Theory 3) the sign can read minds and adjust its language accordingly (I was thinking in English at the time)
Theory 4) No one noticed, or they did but couldn't be bothered to change it; aka general inneficiency
My money's on 4, with 2 as a second runner. Although it would be very awesome - and worrying - if 3 was right.
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I live in Argentina. We speak Spanish. And while I applaud the pharmacy for its campaign, I think it might reach more of the population if it used the language everyone speaks here. Why didn't they?
Theory 1) it's a fiendish attempt to get rid of everyone who doesn't know English.
Theory 2) it cycles through different languages (it was raining, I didn't wait to see)
Theory 3) the sign can read minds and adjust its language accordingly (I was thinking in English at the time)
Theory 4) No one noticed, or they did but couldn't be bothered to change it; aka general inneficiency
My money's on 4, with 2 as a second runner. Although it would be very awesome - and worrying - if 3 was right.
