No Food ‘Or’ Drink

I can no longer tolerate this simple English mistake made by so many people in Singapore (or maybe the world). This stupid mistake ‘No Food And Drink’.

The correct conjunction should be or instead of and. No Food Or Drink is the correct sign to inform people not to bring food or drink into the unauthorised premises.

In short, we re-write No Food Or Drink as No Food/Drink which means No Food And No Drink.
If we were to say No Food And Drink, we actually mean that you cannot bring food and drink into the premises together, but you can either bring a food or a drink into the premises.

No Food Or Drink means you cannot bring either a food, either a drink or both food and drink into the unauthorised premises.

I have seen this stupid mistake for ages, and I hope you could tell your friends about this and hope words spread to the manufacturers of those signs with wrong conjunction used.

~ by ViN-.- on May 7, 2007.