On Wolverhampton station there is a facility where, if you have dog, you can fill a dog bowl with water so that your pet doesn't go thirsty. That's fine. What confuses me is the sign above it which reads


This facility is for the
use of our four-legged
friends.

Please quench your thirst
with our best wishes.


Even in Wolverhampton most of the dogs are unable to read so what I want to know is this... who exactly does the "your" in the second sentence refer to?

who exactly does the "your" in the second sentence refer to?

Well, technically, they are (y)our friends either. I think the you refers to (y)our four-legged friends. People speak with their pets as though they can understand English, and some even go far enough to assert that they do.

Nah. I think they think dogs can read.

There's a sign in most London buses that reads in part:

quote:

Please do not talk to or obstruct the driver's vision while the bus is in motion

How does one talk to the driver's vision?

By getting right in his face as you natter on and on?

WM

Quoth arnie: "How does one talk to the driver's vision?" It might be possible, based on some recent research! http://www.wesleyan.edu/psyc/m...lume02/article03.pdf and

http://www.scientificamerican....ind-see-with-tongues