[Magdalen] Creeping UK-ism?
Jim Guthrie
jguthrie at pipeline.com
Sun Jul 26 23:51:11 UTC 2015
From: Scott Knitter
>"PLEASE USE ALL AVAILABLE DOORS! USE...ALL...AVAILABLE...DOORS!"
Trains with bad doors are immediately taken out of service in NYC these days --
part of the quality of life improvements that wiped out graffiti and also takes
trains with a train with no AC (or heat) immediately out of service.
>...at a deafening volume. It's not that it's a bad sentence, but it's
>a stupid thing to tell a crowd to do. I, an individual passenger,
I wouldn’t worry about the grammar. Be grateful the cta does not employ pushers
to shove people into the available doors as in Japan and other countries.
Cheers,
Jim
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