Galen says:
This is posted above the fish tank at my school. It replaced a sign that said essentially the same thing, it just didn’t have the interesting punctuation. I will say that this new sign manages to attract my attention every time I go by (but not in a good way).
So we have the obvious quotation-mark abuse, random capitalization, and one that’s annoying me a lot recently. I see the “hyphen-preposition” construction a lot on the web, as in “log-on” or “sign-in.” I understand that one would want to hyphenate if one were modifying a noun, such as “sign-in sheet” or “log-in process.” But I’m far more likely to see “please log-in now,” which I hate. And now we see that phenomenon expanding to fish tanks. What’s next, people?? What’s next?
Does having this happen with fish tanks mean that the problem is scaling up?
Groan.