Too Hot for Words

DAISY PROM
Opinions Editor
In an environment of learning, everything seems to be a test (or insult) of your knowledge. When the sign at the guidance office welcomes you brightly with a sign that reads “Recyling,” you have every right to take out your trusty editing kit and white that nonsense out of existence. Always remember to make the proper corrections afterwards, though, so it won’t count as desecration of school property.
Be careful where you take your lessons; our proud, state-recognized school library tests your ability to spell elementary school words with its colorful sign, “Kollege Korner.” If anything, we encounter the epitome of irony.
It becomes even more startling when officially printed signs display “Its the Law,” and we as civilians are forced to question the credibility of this statement, or when an advertisement promises “Gorgeous, Looking Skin,” and we as consumers have to wonder why we want our skin to be looking.
Other favorites include store banners that read “$20 dollars,” sentences that use the word “irregardless” and chat logs that include the remark “your stupid.”
What’s really sad is that to many people, the previously mentioned phrases seem perfectly fine. These same people do not appreciate the particulars of the English language, and instead insist they are being innovative and simply recognizing Shakespeare by supposedly emulating him. To these people, we ask, “My stupid what?”