Thursday, June 18, 2009

I wonder

The other day, while traveling home on the bus, I saw a sign that had a name followed by "Legal Lawyers".  I immediately began to wonder would the "illegal" lawyers put that fact on their sign and if not why would it be necessary to put "legal" on the sign.  

Or is it that we cannot assume that lawyers deal with matters of law so therefore must describe them by another word, "legal", that we may or may not understand as having to do with law.

Most likely it is bad marketing and reminds me of being in places where English is the second language. 

 "Why Can't the English learn to speak?"  Henry Higgins where are you? 

1 comment:

Erin Marie said...

I definitely want to go and check this place out.

Although, a quick Google search shows that it's not an unusual form of name. I still don't think it is correct English, or good marketing. But it's not uncommon.

Idiots.