Floor 3, or….

Posted on August 14, 2007 | 6 Comments

Wow.

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dlipkin | August 15, 2007 at 4:27 am | Reply

I appreciate the two underlines under the “th.” It’s as if the person who wrote it wanted you to notice the mistake.

On a side note: I enjoy that Spanish uses abbreviations for second, third, etc. as well, but instead of a “th” or “rd” (which are English, of course), Spanish has an “a” in the superscript next to the numeral. I swear, it must have been a few weeks into Spanish class before I realized this fact! It just looked so different, and as a result, I just did not think to interpret it as “segunda” or “tercera” (Spanish for second and third, respectively).
Bryan D. Catherman | August 15, 2007 at 10:04 am | Reply

Maybe this sign belongs to the 7th floor, but the crew on the 3rd floor stole it and made it their own?
Ryan | August 15, 2007 at 10:19 am | Reply

Wait, I don’t see what’s wrong with 3th. It’s just like 4rd. or 5ft. or 6st.
Mark | August 15, 2007 at 9:30 pm | Reply

dlipkin,

If the word is masculine, the letter in the superscript it “o”

segundo = 2º

tercera = 3ª
dlipkin | August 16, 2007 at 12:04 am | Reply

True that. I was only referring to the feminine forms which I mentioned, but yeah, “o” is for sure used in the case of masculine. Good work soldier.
Kate | August 17, 2007 at 1:52 pm | Reply

You won’t believe this — at work yesterday, I actually received an email that had “3th” in it!! Awful.