Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?
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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?
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@scottalanmiller said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
@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?
Again, based on probability of error.
I mean, in theory, it could really have supposed to be 1 month and they erred and put 2.
The likely answer is that, since apostrophe's are used so infrequently wrong, that is the intention.
Could it be anything else? Yes.
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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?:
@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?
Again, based on probability of error.
I mean, in theory, it could really have supposed to be 1 month and they erred and put 2.
The likely answer is that, since apostrophe's are used so infrequently wrong, that is the intention.
Could it be anything else? Yes.
But this is marketing. The same logic says that this is consistent with standard strategies to trick consumers into exactly the kind of response you just gave. So while lots of people make this error normally, marketing does this intentionally all of the time to elicit the exact "but they must have meant" response you gave.
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I see were Scott is going here but this is one of those situations where I do not believe that there is the ultra intelligent word smithing genius in marketing going on in this situation.
This simply appears to be someone who has no command of the English language making a sign.
To that and I remain with my current opinion. Please feel free to stop at that location and acquire to prove who is right or wrong. -
@dashrender said in Who is Two Month and Why Was He Imprisoned?:
I see were Scott is going here but this is one of those situations where I do not believe that there is the ultra intelligent word smithing genius in marketing going on in this situation.
There is no word smithing. This is the exact same thing we always go through. This is super basic every day marketing and your reaction to it is exactly what marketers expect. There is an emotional drive to explain simple marketing in crazy terms. This is the same reaction that makes people sure that AT&T guaranteed unlimited or whatever.
I did nothing here. Any word smithing is on your side. I pointed out that two possibilities are equal and that one has marketing behind it and one does not. You smithed to say that the one that favours you must be the case, even though this flies in the face of common sense and all experience.
