Tuesday, April 14, 2009

That's a lot of food!


I found this sign in an elevator this weekend. It's an ad for Johnny's Italian Steakhouse. I had just eaten there, so I knew the sign was false.

No matter how diverse a restaurant's menu is, it can never be unlimited. Do they offer every food served on the planet? Do they have enough food to serve an infinite number of people? Definitely not. This is not a grammar error, but it is definitely a mistake in the usage of words. They probably meant large, diverse, or even special order. But they failed to understand that unlimited means "without limits."

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