Friday, 20 July 2018

Words fail me......and them

It's been a long time since I've been sufficiently riled up enough to have a good rant, but today is one of those days, and as usual it is over something petty that does not affect my life in any way, yet still manages to get my blood pressure up.

Posting on a local Spain-based Facebook forum, someone presents the following:

"Hi !
Is there a English speaking opticians in Baza!"

One wonders how on earth it is possible to cram so many mistakes into such a short sentence. I should think the cat hammering on the keyboard in the famous meme would produce something more closely resembling English.  

I can't decide whether it's ironic or just downright audacious to expect someone of a different language to have learnt yours when you haven't bothered to yourself, and it's debatable whether the poor optician- if one is found- will be able to understand the creator of this random assembly of letters and punctuation marks.

I suppose it could always be put down to poor eyesight........