Monday 13 October 2008

Misreading the signs (1)

(with apologies, for the title, to Reading the Signs).

Possibly the first of many such posts: possibly not. But I do seem to continually misread newspaper headlines, billboard ads, posters and any other such texts when I see them at a glance.

Today's, then, was

While the bus is in motion, passengers are requested not to stand forward of this sign, or otherwise wound the driver.

9 comments:

But Why? said...

Perhaps my brain's a bit slow this morning; the correct interpretation was...?

trousers said...

Ah - it's not about interpretation as such - it is complete and utter misreading: so in this case the word wound was definitely not there but I had somehow read it as being there thanks to either something in my train of thought, or the way the words were arranged on the poster or whatever.

So the correct word was something like distract - but that last part was worded slightly differently thanks to me inadvertently jumbling up letters and words in my own mind before reading it properly.

Erm, if that makes any sense whatsoever?

zola a social thing said...

was it "round" or "around" rather than wound.
Was the sign written by a company from the Nu-Labor-UK?

Wound seems common in the House of Lords where wound the wogged wock the waghead wassle won.

trousers said...

zola, now you've really lost me.

DJ Kirkby said...

Lol. At least your life is never boring...

trousers said...

Now if only that were true, dj! ;-)

Merkin said...

Don't round on the driver !

Reading the Signs said...

There are so many ways to read the signs, Trousers ;)

trousers said...

Yes and there may well be many more of these on their way!