The Leonard Lopate Show is collecting grammatically incorrect signs. Upload your photo below and you might be a guest on the show to talk about your sign.
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Jack Vietas
Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, sign above urinal in first-floor men's room.
Translation: Our aim is to keep the men's room clean, your aim will help.
S Paintner
The Bronx, New York, 2006
In the middle of a parking lot, this sign appeared - WRONG on many levels.
S Paintner
This appeared in front of my linguistically challenged supermarket in 2004. As if the "SROD FILLET" wasn't bad enough, the "RED SNAPPLE" certainly caught my eye. I wondered if the price per pound or by the case!
Charles Baldanza
This sign greets visitors entering the town of Mamakating, NY. It looks like it is in very good condition for a sign that is 267 years old.
Ashley Albert
On 27th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York City...as I was walking into Japas 27 for a bit of the ol' traditional Independence Day Karaoke.
Jack Vietas
Zuoying MRT Station, the new subway for Taiwan's 2nd largest city. Announcements and signs are in four languages. Mandarin, English, Taiwanese, and Hakka.
Jack Vietas
Zhong Shan 2nd Road, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The Chinese characters stand for Xiang1 Shui3, perfume. This is a club where men have tea and drinks served to them by female escorts. It's the perfect setting for a future Taiwanese detective novel.
Jack Vietas
Kaohsiung Municipal SiaoGang Hospital, hospital directory in the elevator.
The Funk Hole is not far from the morgue, but what could it possibly be? A punishment area? A repository for medical waste?
My wife, a Mandarin native speaker suggests that it might be a bad translation of "fallout shelter".
Jack Vietas
Lingya District afternoon-night market, Kaohsiung City Taiwan.
This is a city-wide chain which sells flavored teas to go. Hip and trendy name, eh?
Jack Vietas
The Splendor Hotel, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
This is a five-star hotel which gets a great deal of foreign English-speaking traffic. Surely someone could have suggested a correction to "Hot Surface" on the back of this industrial coffee machine?
jack Vietas
Explanatory text at the "Sewer Exhibition"
Love River, Kaohsiung City. Beware the stink, folks. Just sayin'
jack vietas
Ciatou Sugar Refinery, Kaohsiung County Taiwan
Peter Michaels
I saw this sign while traveling through Tuba City, AZ.
Linda Novenski
No longer there, this sign was on 37th Ave, Jackson Heights, Queens. Photo taken this past Spring.
Lewis Stein
Chicken Head Mountain in Yunnan Province in China in the vicinity of Dali.