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While waiting for my wife in a store, I noticed a sign on a door that read, "For your safety, employees only allowed beyond this point." Now that seemed fairly ambiguous to me. Does it mean that only employess were allowed to go behind the doors? Or does it mean employees cannot exit into the store through those doors? Or is there another explanatin?
 
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It probably doesn't mean employees can exit that way, or else the sign would be on the other side of the doors.
 
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AMAZING! So they even have the sign on the wrong side......

Sholuld it be "...emplyees only..." or "...only employees"?
 
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I don't understand what the ambiguity is supposed to be.
 
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It seems pretty clear to me, and you know me...quite the literalist!
 
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I am not a literalist, but I cannot figure out what the ambiguous meaning of the sign's text is supposed to be.


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Guess you had to be there.
 
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I would expect the sign to say, "Employees only $79.95." "Only" seems to be a word that retailers have to use when advertising anything and everything. It's absurdly overused.


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