I realize not everyone is gifted in the art of writing effectively, but in the last week alone, I've seen the following:
I test drove a car at a dealership whose slogan was, "If you buy somewhere else, you paid too much!". How can not a single person who works at this huge dealership see the mismatched verb tense in that?
In a fairly-upscale restaurant, I saw a sign for the " RESTROOM'S ". I'm curious what it is that the restrooms own.
In a letter from a car dealer I found this gem of a sentence: "If you loose these documents they will need to be replaced this is expensive and you will have to pay for them." Hopefully my new car will "run on" for as long as that sentence did...
In the catalog for a smaller woodworking tool supplier, I barely made it 3 pages in before setting the catalog aside in disgust with how poorly written it was. The little bit that I read was rife with usage errors, punctuation mistakes, and misspellings.
Is it just me, or are these sort of things appearing more often? I fear that a generation of functionally illiterate citizens will leave us with no one to correct the mistakes.