Look, I'm not really down for mocking people for whom English is not their first language. It's not cool. That being said, someone went to the trouble of having these signs printed up professionally. At that point, I feel like maybe you could have asked your neighbor to give the signs a once-over, just to make sure you didn't miss anything, since you're spending the money. This is totally a spot where spellcheck is NOT going to save you.
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| Photo by Robin Fay |
So, yeah. It is carbs. It is also, one must presume, crab. It's possible this is a chain, and the signs came from corporate, and so they just hung them up there, because they had to. But that's even sadder, right? That corporate would foist this tragedy on them? Transliterations are tough, because you want to spell them so that people pronounce them as correctly as possible. But crab is just crab, y'all.
The moral of the story is: When you're making a sign to hang at your business, and you're bothering to have them professionally printed, have someone else read them. Even if you are 1000% sure you're correct. It can't hurt, right? And can only help. No business owner is an island.
(Once again, loyal reader and friend AW comes through for me, with this awesome find via her internet buddy
@georgiawebgurl. Original instagram can be found at
this link.)
Dude. Seriously. How can I possibly eat somewhere where they can't even spell a simple four-letter word right? My nephew is a first-grader and even he can tell the difference between "carb" and "crab!" :)
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