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Either this photo was taken in an arboretum or those kids on leashes are not quite what I’ve thought.
My kids can bark if they want to,damnit!!
Why is this a fail? It makes perfect sense to me. If I had a garden centre, I wouldn’t want bratty kids throwing around the bark mulch, either.
Specificity shouldn’t result in a fail.
@ L
It isn’t specificity that’s the problem, it’s grammar.
The sentence could easily be fixed by a simple reversal. “Please do not let children play with the bark or the water fountains.”
I don’t know … I got it once I realized it was a garden shop where they sell bark. Perhaps it’s worded a little confusingly, but I don’t think the grammar is wrong.
On the other hand, there really was no need to Capitalize Every Single Word.
You wouldn’t even have to reverse the words for it to be correct, just add another “the”: “Please do not let children play with the water fountains and the bark.” Of course the capitalization would still be wrong.
Yep, it’s the old “What has four wheels and flies?” motif.
Well, you also want “or” instead of “and”, unless of course the staff thinks it’s perfectly okay for children to play with one or the other, not both.
language lawyer nitpicking bs
The way it is written is ambiguous enough to be funny. Lighten up.
Woof woof,
i really laughed out loud on this one
specially with the 2 first comments !