• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    I’m not sure if this is the guy I’m thinking of, but at least one roadside vegetable seller does this sort of thing deliberately. After all, a sign with such… unique spelling is much more attention grabbing than a simple list of vegetables.

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      A lot of them do, especially the secretly commercial stands that are getting all too common. Like the cat says, “you are not immune to propaganda advertising”.

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        The consultant and artist who conceived and realized that sign both went to Yale. The company who holds a regulatory-captured monopoly on all Texas roadside produce stands paid their agency $6.5M for this design.

        And just because I made this up, doesn’t mean it’s not true.

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      People do it online all the time. Back in reddit days (pre-fediverse), I never saw a front page post without some grammatical or spelling mishap.

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        Spelling errors were frequent, but they got pushed out of meta by just asking a question.

        “Here’s a screenshot from [game]. What’s your favourite?”

        …and everyone proceeds to just post their fav game without reading any other comments and the post shoots up to the top of /r/all