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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that said, paying for a billboard with a misspelled facebook meme is a really funny use of your car dealership inheritance money

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah you should see some of the crap billboards idiots buy in the south, I saw one on vacation that just said something like "What happened to personal responsibility? Let's bring it back!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There used to be a big one on a nearly barren highway outside of my hometown that just said "Jesus hates abortions!" And it had a stock image of Jesus that still had some kind of watermark on it

America sure is a country

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There used to be a big one on a nearly barren highway outside of my hometown that just said "Jesus hates abortions!"

That could describe any place in the Midwest lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

woag, really makes you think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Back during the whole “labor shortage” bs a couple years back, I saw one outside of atlanta that said:

HELP AMERICA WORK
GOTOWORKGOTOWORKGOTOWORK

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's still hilarious that no one along the whole chain designing, printing, and installing that billboard noticed the obvious spelling mistake.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it's not the job of the people who sell and maintain the ad space to tell the customer that their ad is stupid

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

To be fair, it's probably a good sign that you have some easy money on your hands

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Hi, this is Bob from Bob's Billboards. I'm afraid there must have been some sort of mix-up. We received a photograph of a pig with feces on its...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They might be playing 4D chess and thinking spelling it phonetically is the only way to keep it comprehensible to the hogs who are driving right by.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably misspelled it to get dems to share it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Yep the reverse Nigerian Prince email

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Alright, I'm being a pedant, but how is "dimensia" any more phonetic than "dementia"? If anything "dimensia" is less phonetic since all the common -sia words are pronounced /-ʒə/ and all the common -tia words are pronounced /-ʃə/. The "dimensia" spelling is influenced by "dimension", but that's not strictly the same as being phonetic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess what I meant is the -sh sound is likely to be known across more reading levels than the -tia sound because it comes up earlier in reading education. The first spelling, when sounded out, more readily reproduces "dementia" as the remedial reader has heard it ambiently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

"Your going to the camps!"

"Um actually it's spelled *you're heh, owned MAGA"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Honestly more power to people who spell words "wrong". Generally the best way to have a successful spelling reform is to look for common misspellings and make them a part of the standard.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Prescriptivists shidding and farding and crying rn

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Grocery should have 2 c's. 😡

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Grocery should be spelled grossery with grossiery as a variant spelling, such that it's clearer that the word is related to "gross"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

and another o

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

No, it's dimensia. Biden'a connection with the third dimension is wearing down and soon he will exist solely as a shadow on the Oval Office walls

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'll take your brains to another dimension

I'll take your brains to another dimension

I'll take your brains to another dimension

Pay close attention

[epic beat drops]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Spellcheck Man!

Faster than a speeding typo!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Ummm owned that dumb chud epic style 🤓 hahaha can't even spell dementia, which biden does not have and its russian disinformation. Classic russian drumpf operation. 😌Don't vote biden trump will win and do nazi germany. I won't save you then 🫵.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Borden is finushed.