As You Like It, Act II Sc. 7
JAQUES
O worthy fool!
...in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
I am ambitious for a motley coat.
Spotted at a roadworks site along the Pacific Highway:
It's nice that they're so accepting....*DO NOT ENTER
AUTHORISED VEHICLES ACCEPTED
posted by Laura E. Goodin @ 12:25 AM (permalink)
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5 Comments:
I didn't see the problem 'cos the sentence does work grammatically. I thought they would be accepted because they'd have a pass. Duh. *l*
Nah. It should be "excepted," as in, "an exception to this rule is made for authorised vehicles." Yes, the other way is grammatically correct, but it's careless -- someone not bothering to find out what word should actually be used. Or even that there's a difference.
I accept your need to critique. In fact, I encourage it. We need people like you, to keep people like me in line!
That's the sort of thing that can really irritate.
What's sort of interesting is that both spellings mean about the same thing - those authorised vehicles get in. More fun is:
FREE BEER!
Those under 18 accepted.
And I had a real life example back in my clerk days. A supervisor signed off on an invoice that had some extra charges. "Approved. Extra charges excepted." What he really meant was, "yeah, and those extra charges? S'okay to pay them too."
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