Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Must have walked past loads of times without noticing this !!
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Jan Higgins
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Tut tut.
Please bring the fabric of choice together with hammer and tacks when recovering your craft.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Actually it's not wrong in my opinion, it's just a bit archaic. The word 'advised' is used in two senses in the same sentence; firstly you are being informed that the slipway gets slippery (the verb is in the indicative mood) and secondly you are recommended that caution be taken (where the verb is in the subjunctive mood). I suspect the wording has been lifted from more ancient signs which may have been there in the past. We don't see the subjunctive much nowadays - 'if I were you' is the only everyday usage of it I can think of.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I thought it was the "exept" that was wrong, surely it should be EXCEPT.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Wooooo, I missed that
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Welcome to my world Peter
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I admit I had to read the sign three times to see what was wrong.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it took me 4 reads until i spotted it.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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'slippery slipway' is just a disaster in the waiting for some lisping pwasser by.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Keith hasn't noticed yet, it's a cobbled together slipway!
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Brian Dixon
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dose that mean that we are all in it together peter.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes the Except/exept is wrong !!
The first bit doesn't really read well either though
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Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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There's a word missing in the top section in my opinion: Insert "that" between "and" & "extra" in line 4, and/or "should" inserted between "caution" & "be" in line five.
Alternatively, replace the sign with one that reads "WARNING - keep well clear unless you know what you are doing"
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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All a bunch of cobbles, except slippery when wet
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It should read: and extra caution be taken at all times when recovering craft...
As it stands now, only people who at all times recover craft should take extra caution, presumably because they must be tired of doing it 24/7
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Surely anyone reading the sign will understand the message? so job done?
Audere est facere.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not forgetting the fun we get at taking a pop at institutions.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I have just read this on the National Trust White Cliffs website:
Nature Conservation Leacture Buffet
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