Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 20 April 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture.
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Neat photo, and the title is just great.
20 Apr 2008 2:35pm
@Observing: Thanks. It's why I like to have a camera on me at all times.
"on bord" - looks like a German typo! (Spring-break?)
20 Apr 2008 6:23pm
@MadScientist: Now that you mention it. But then, it's amazing how much English is just German. I think you guys just starting merging whole sentences into single words in order to confuse us.
The title fits and i like the mirror.
21 Apr 2008 1:14pm
@Anthony: I struggled over the right title.
well obviously they're being taught to swim well, now they just need to bring spelling instruction to the same level. neat find and capture
22 Apr 2008 1:53am
@danthro: My guess would be that the parents, or another sibling, put the message on the vehicle. Note that it's a Cadillac SUV --quite expensive. A new tire for one of these babies --one tire-- goes for $500. So, either the whole family can't spell, or the parents chose to drive around with it misspelled instead of making a correction. Do we not want to harm little Johnny's self-esteem? And if that's the case, we're forced to consider the fact that these parents thought driving around like this was less harmful to little Johnny's self-esteem than making a correction. Whatever the explanation, I think it all says quite a bit about the condition of our society.
Great title (as usual)...with spellcheck on everything, not to mention the age of texting, gone are the days of looking up a word in a dictionary and forming a grammatically correct sentence (although, I must admit I've fallen victim of the latter). And DO NOT get me started about the whole self-esteem issue. Devo had it right from the beginning...we're definitely de-evolving as a society. *sigh* Oh, btw, nice capture. ;)
22 Apr 2008 6:58pm
@Melissa W.: Devolving at an accelerating pace I'm afraid. Though I also wonder if we are not bifurcating into two classes of some kind: rulers and ruled, new aristocracy and underclass, elite and ordinary, or rich and poor. Lines from the Yeats poem keep running through my mind, like: "the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity," and "things fall apart, the center cannot hold."
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