I was walking down Third Avenue recently, when I saw this plaque on the wall outside the beloved Kiehl's, dedicated to a tree:
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| Plaque. |
Here is a close-up:
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| Close-up. |
But what's that?!
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| Poorly placed quotation mark. |
What a poorly-placed quotation mark!
There needs to be a Typesetting Society, that fixes other Society's bad plaques!
#eastvillage #kiehls #plaques #signs #thehollandsociety #thirdavenue #kerning
the font for the double quote used in the 'he" my' does not seem to match the plaque font?
ReplyDeleteit may be missing a comma? grammatically, it should be:
'he, "my'.
p.s. the holland society is still around http://www.hollandsociety.org/
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it probably should be 'remembered."' (period inside the quotes).
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and more about the pear tree:
Deletehttp://thevillager.com/villager_98/peterspeartree.html Peter’s pear tree plaque is going home at long last
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and a picture of the pear tree, in a pair of photos:
Deletehttps://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/east-13th-streets-most-famous-downed-tree/ East 13th Street’s most famous downed tree
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re: your suggestion for a 'typesetting society' - quito has the AOQ (accion ortografica quito) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNTnwLlIOuU The Graffiti Grammar Police
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That's great! How did you hear about this?
Deletei forget exactly where - maybe boing or digg?
Deletei know, i know - i should be more judicious about my aggregator choices.
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