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TfL use of English
On 30/01/2012 21:58, Paul Cummins wrote:
We were about to embark at Dover, when (Offramp) came up to me and whispered: My favourite incomprehensible sign is on most TfL buses: "..Do not speak to or distract the driver's attention..." Which used to day "do not speak to the driver or distract his attention while the vehicle is in motion" In which case, how do you ask him to stop? Ring the bell? |
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TfL use of English
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on Mon, 30 Jan 2012, redcat remarked: Public transportation signage is a culture like no other. And announcements. There's one at my local station "Security personnel patrol this station 24 hours a day", which is neither true [it's deserted from about 9pm onwards] and improbable [they'd be sleepwalking half the time]. -- Roland Perry |
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On Jan 31, 1:23*am, redcat wrote:
I adore signage in the UK. Getting off the LHR - MAN flight we met a sign that read "Do not place fud here" So now we know LOL cats work at MAN airport! Not FOD, i.e. Foreign Object Damage, which tends to get extended to refer to the Foreign Objects that might cause the Damage (or an alternate interpretation "Foreign Object Debris")? Neil |
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On 1/30/2012 7:10 PM, wrote:
On 30/01/2012 21:58, Paul Cummins wrote: We were about to embark at Dover, when (Offramp) came up to me and whispered: My favourite incomprehensible sign is on most TfL buses: "..Do not speak to or distract the driver's attention..." Which used to day "do not speak to the driver or distract his attention while the vehicle is in motion" In which case, how do you ask him to stop? Ring the bell? Wouldn't that be distracting? |
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On 31/01/2012 00:24, redcat wrote:
On 1/30/2012 7:10 PM, wrote: On 30/01/2012 21:58, Paul Cummins wrote: We were about to embark at Dover, when (Offramp) came up to me and whispered: My favourite incomprehensible sign is on most TfL buses: "..Do not speak to or distract the driver's attention..." Which used to day "do not speak to the driver or distract his attention while the vehicle is in motion" In which case, how do you ask him to stop? Ring the bell? Wouldn't that be distracting? Probably. |
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wrote on 31 January 2012
00:10:30 ... On 30/01/2012 21:58, Paul Cummins wrote: We were about to embark at Dover, when (Offramp) came up to me and whispered: My favourite incomprehensible sign is on most TfL buses: "..Do not speak to or distract the driver's attention..." Which used to [say] "do not speak to the driver or distract his attention while the vehicle is in motion" Ah, yes, the gender-specific "his" had to go. In which case, how do you ask him to stop? Ring the bell? No, that distracts his attention from his job which is to get to the next meal break as fast as possible. -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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TfL use of English
We were about to embark at Dover, when () came up
to me and whispered: Ring the bell? thus distracting his attenton whilst the vehicle is in motion... -- Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead Wasting Bandwidth since 1981 IF you think this http://bit.ly/u5EP3p is cruel please sign this http://bit.ly/sKkzEx ---- If it's below this line, I didn't write it ---- |
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