Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Poor Edit

Above the floor buttons in the elevators at work is a plaque saying DO NOT PANIC, with some instructions regarding stuck eleveator syndrome. I feel I will spend my tenure in this building *tsk-tsk*'ing every day at this horrendous rewrite to one of Douglas Adams' most famous phrases.

Don't is a perfectly cromulent word. This version is a little authoritarian by comparison.

As would be no surprise: I like Adams so much better.

Good writing in elevators is so hard to find. Le sigh!

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