July 27, 2011 

Another Non Comic WWTT: Talk About Inflation.

I pass this every day in the NY Port Authority and never noticed the mistake until a few days ago.

 

Yes, that's a comma, not a period.

 

For that price, there better be a lot more than just buffing.

 

This week is not looking good. Deadlines loom and I have to be in Court on Monday for a property tax dispute. Feeling pretty confident about it. I’m well prepared with documents. I’m either going to win my appeal or be thrown in the clink for contempt.


  • madwoman

    Let me know-I’ll try to bail you out.

  • HazeSti

    Some languages (including mine) use commas instead of dots for the cents, and no commas, only spaces for the thousands etc.

    I’m guessing that guy’s foreign!

    (ps:  sorry for buzzkilling here)

  • Anonymous

    If you get thrown in jail, try to make one of Lex Luthor’s improvised time machines.  Maybe you’ll be able to go back and end the dispute before it began, thus creating a paradox!

  • Naryldor

    In spanish is just as you say, dots mark the thousands and commas the cents/decimals. I guess that sign was made by a native spanish speaker with little knowledge of english.

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    I think European, as we write it the same way. 

  • Naryldor

    Yes, prehaps the right way to put it is that using commas to mark thousands and dots for decimals is an english thing (it’s the same in UK and all other english speaking countries AFAIK), while most other languages do the opposite. Perhaps it’s related to their apparent allergy to the metric system? xD (just kidding :P ).

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