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I guess the purpose of the post is ‘prier’ but to me, it reads unnecessarily clunkily, breaking all the rules of plain English.
I would write something like
To enter this facility you must:
Have valid ID
Sign in at front desk (the out is, at this stage, redundant)
Submit your carried items (backpacks, briefcases etc) to inspection.
and so on
Where I work, there is a message often displayed on the TV screens that says
“Owing to the current security situation with immediate effect all passes must be worn and on display in the building”
It annoys the hell out of me, because the important bit ‘Always wear and display your pass in the building’ is submerged under peripheral waffle and backstory.
The fact that this has been on display for four years makes the ‘current’ and ‘immediate effect’ increasingly irrelevant.
Sign out isn’t reduntant..they have to know how many people are in the building in case of fire.
Some other problems:
* “ie.” should be “i.e.,”
* “e.g.” should be used instead of “ie.” (this also renders “etc.” redundant)
* “noncompliance to” should be “noncompliance with”
* “non access” should be “non-access”
* “non-access” isn’t actually a word and should instead be “denial of access”
The amusing thing about the intended fail is that “prior” is spelled correctly farther down the sign.
Unnecessary capitalisation, too.
Why is alpha in parenthesis?
You do realise you’re all gigantic nerds, right?
I understood the sign just fine – it’s not great – but it’s ok.
But it still is a fail (hence the meaning of the posting). Also, what the hell is threat level “ALPHA”?!
It says Vehicles will be “randomly” inspected…lol
what the frick is “FPCON?”
My best guess for “FPCON” is Frat Party Readiness Condition. DEFCON means Defense Readiness Condition.
There are 5 stages for DEFCON. DEFCON 1 is Maximum force readiness. The ALPHA on the shirt is Greek for 1.
This type of writing is probably based on the U.S. military standards for effective writing. Obviously this is different from conventional english. In my opinion it is english for retards, compressed and condensed to fit into a smaller space.
The random capitalization is also rather weird, I don’t think that is part of the standard.
There should also be a comma or the word “and” between Current and Valid.
By the way, FPCON stands for Force Protection Condition.
This was just what I was on looking for! I’ll come back to this blog for sure!!