Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?
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Got to love Americans totally devastating the English language. Our education system is doing us proud.
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They are offering 2 rent free months. Just with an apostrophe typo that is seen almost everywhere.
Its common. (See what I did there?)
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@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
They are offering 2 rent free months. Just with an apostrophe typo that is seen almost everywhere.
You sure? You sound awfully confident in getting the best deal of three options for you. It might be a common mistake, but so is leaving out "nd". What are the real chances they'd give two months for free instead of giving the second month for free in reality?
You're solution might be the "likely" when we are talking about nothing but typos. But we are talking about marketing and they just let you fill in the gaps with "what you assume they must have meant". How is this different from any other "they didn't say that but I just assumed that they meant that" marketing tactic?
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@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
We were driving by and could not help laughing for the longest time. Clearly there is no way to know what they meant. Dominica at first thought that the apostrophe was the issue and that it was meant to be "2 months free". But I pointed out that this is unlikely and what is probably missing is the "nd" from the 2 making it "2nd month's free" or "2nd month IS free." That's far more likely. Neither will hold up if you demand your free month or two free months as it does not guarantee either.
Dominica kept trying to come up with any way for it to be a legit statement. The only thing we arrived at was that someone with the name "2 Month" was now free and they were throwing a party for him.
The way I read it, without reading beyond this post is.
You rent for a year, you get two months free.
But as mentioned, the sign really isn't that clear.
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@dashrender said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
We were driving by and could not help laughing for the longest time. Clearly there is no way to know what they meant. Dominica at first thought that the apostrophe was the issue and that it was meant to be "2 months free". But I pointed out that this is unlikely and what is probably missing is the "nd" from the 2 making it "2nd month's free" or "2nd month IS free." That's far more likely. Neither will hold up if you demand your free month or two free months as it does not guarantee either.
Dominica kept trying to come up with any way for it to be a legit statement. The only thing we arrived at was that someone with the name "2 Month" was now free and they were throwing a party for him.
The way I read it, without reading beyond this post is.
You rent for a year, you get two months free.
But as mentioned, the sign really isn't that clear.
Right, and I think that that is what they hope that you will think. But it's certainly not binding.
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The biggest problem is that the ONLY thing that it really says is that someone named Two Month is not free. Legally, this is all that is there.
Assuming that they don't want to get in trouble for deception, both 2nd Month Free and 2 Months Free are equally suggested by the sign, regardless of what anyone "feels" the intention was. So if you were to be put in a position of having to sue for your free time, you'd only be able to argue that it said you'd get one.
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Thought that I would find something humourus for this and a quick search the first result was...
https://www.domushousing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/promotwo_months_free-2.png
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I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
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I still the intention is to give 2 free months as part of the lease. I see this a lot.
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@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
New Jersey
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@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
We were driving by and could not help laughing for the longest time. Clearly there is no way to know what they meant. Dominica at first thought that the apostrophe was the issue and that it was meant to be "2 months free". But I pointed out that this is unlikely and what is probably missing is the "nd" from the 2 making it "2nd month's free" or "2nd month IS free." That's far more likely. Neither will hold up if you demand your free month or two free months as it does not guarantee either.
Dominica kept trying to come up with any way for it to be a legit statement. The only thing we arrived at was that someone with the name "2 Month" was now free and they were throwing a party for him.
Hey there was 2 pac, why not 2 month?
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Yeah.... the rule of thumb when using an apostrophe is to as your self does it make sense when you say it in long form.
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It's free dog food.
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It is free dog food.
All good, in this case someone simply didn't perform a basic test and it makes them look incredibly foolish. But I agree with @Dashrender. The intention is you'll be receiving 2 months free when you sign up for a lease.
Not necessarily an additional 2 months after a 1 year lease, but more likely "The first 2 months are free when you sign the lease."
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@quixoticjeremy said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
We were driving by and could not help laughing for the longest time. Clearly there is no way to know what they meant. Dominica at first thought that the apostrophe was the issue and that it was meant to be "2 months free". But I pointed out that this is unlikely and what is probably missing is the "nd" from the 2 making it "2nd month's free" or "2nd month IS free." That's far more likely. Neither will hold up if you demand your free month or two free months as it does not guarantee either.
Dominica kept trying to come up with any way for it to be a legit statement. The only thing we arrived at was that someone with the name "2 Month" was now free and they were throwing a party for him.
Hey there was 2 pac, why not 2 month?
That's what we said!
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WTF is a Pac? A month is at least a thing.
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@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
In marketing? Seeing it anywhere else doesn't apply here.
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@dashrender said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I still the intention is to give 2 free months as part of the lease. I see this a lot.
Why? Based on what?
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@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
In marketing? Seeing it anywhere else doesn't apply here.
Uh, if you consider signs for businesses marketing, then yes, I see it in lots of local marketing.
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@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
In marketing? Seeing it anywhere else doesn't apply here.
Uh, if you consider signs for businesses marketing, then yes, I see it in lots of local marketing.
If I consider an ad campaign to be marketing? Of course it is marketing. How much more marketing can it get?
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@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@brrabill said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I just see that apostrophe error so many times, I assume thats the error.
In marketing? Seeing it anywhere else doesn't apply here.
Uh, if you consider signs for businesses marketing, then yes, I see it in lots of local marketing.
And you see it and you know that in cases where it totally removes any specific meaning like this that it means the one that favours you and not the business - totally the opposite of how all other marketing works?
