News Club Signs made in China?
We've just arrived at Henley having left Bladon Chains where we had spotted an oddly worded sign. Lo and behold the same signs are here! It may be that it's just a case of a missing hyphen.
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Not proper English like what we use!
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Shouldn't that read 'Geroff 'n Walk Round this here Facilities'?
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Obviously my English is that poor, I can't even see the issue!
Should ride-on be hyphenated?
To me the sign reads fine and states that you should not use anything that can be ridden on in that area!?!
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ChemicalJasper
Exactly as I see it. The text should not be seen in isolation as there are diagrams to reinforce the message.
Many years ago the Club used to have notices on their sites saying "No Tents" but has since been changed to "Sorry, No Tents" which gives a completely different flavour to the negative of not accepting tents and perhaps leaves the disappointed tenter with a different view of what the Club is like. So personally I don't see using the word sorry as an apology but more of a way of softening the blow?
David
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exactly my sentiments but having my English ripped to shreds last time...
Officially (just had a email from a Head of English) yes it should be hyphenated but this is a 'dying art rarely used properly anyway' and this wouldn't be marked down in GCSE. She also says in this case it doesn't really matter, the message is clear..
Google Ride ons and you'll see that toy stores do and some don't
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yes, like sorry no pets in hotels/B&B...
not that would happen on a club site
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Really?😱, I can understand it, it makes sense. Although I could bring my ride on tractor to a C&MC site & refuse to get off it on the grounds of grammatically incorrect signage-a get out of jail free card methinks😂😂
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Slightly off topic and noting the terrible loss of life on the US airplane, and the fact that it's newspaper headline, but which was it? was that poor woman blown out of the aircraft or sucked out? I'm on the blown out side but not totally sure.
Data in ST-TNG agrees with me.
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That works for me muscles, earning a few sheckles into my dotage👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😁
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As a contributor on this here forum who on occasions has been known to get the "sin tacks" wrong I hereby offer no objection to incorrect signage.
Now tell me before I get pulled up for another error on another thread. Is the plural of calf, calfs or calves.... ?
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I think that the Club should issue every site with a sheet of peel-off-and-stick white hyphens. Wardens can the stick one on each sign between 'ride' and 'on' thus making the two words into one adjective - 'ride-on'. I hope you all note my use of a 'dash' - as a pause, as opposed to hyphen which is used to join two words together.
No sign of anyone using a ride-on around the block today at Henley!
David Klyne came round for a chat this evening, but we didn't discuss this important issue.
p.s Reading the sign did seem to be a bit pidgin english. "Solly, (you) no ride on equipment"
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Interesting!
Initially my though was that it might depend on you point of reference ... Are you placing yourself inside the plane or outside the plane? Perhaps blown out if inside and sucked out if outside.
But then I'm thinking sucked out, as its higher pressure inside and low pressure outside and the term blown typically refers to some transient over pressure (blown over, blown up) , which did not exist, it was a static differential pressure between the outside and inside?
... Or does it not even matter and the two amount to the same thing?
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Thanks for the reply, I agree that it's the same thing, and I keep going from one to the other. In sucking something you create a lower pressure, here the lower outside pressure just existed? But that doesn't matter so it's sucking
Then I think of the airplane like a tyre, both are inflated or pressurised, and then letting the air out of that tyre? Is the air being sucked out?
It's really bothering me, sad I know
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yes but that wasn't what I was asking, the papers aren't using explosive decompression, but being sucked out. So are you saying it's blown out then?
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