Was this graffiti person grammatically correct?

[Danny McG]

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Yes. "Worries" is plural, and therefore a counted thing. They could also have fixed it by changing "worries" to "worry" instead.

 

[The Judge]

What TDZ said. The ninja grammarian should also have changed the full stop to a comma.

 

[Dennis E. Taylor]

Life should have fewer worries and more sandcastles.

 

[Paul_C]

nb - one piece of graffiti is a graffito.

 

[Phyrebrat]

And, while we're bashing it, it's an appalling design for an advert.

pH

 

[Ursa major]

When it mentions reducing money worries and then advises us to pick up a leaflet, I'm reminded of the currency reform introduced by the Golgafrinchans on arriving on Earth.

I suppose the leaflet would be equivalent to a penny or a cent, with the leaf being more like a pound, dollar or Euro.

 

[Steve Harrison]

The question should be, is grammar necessary in advertising?

My thoughts are that it is not. The message overrides everything else, although I do concede the terrible example above does not support my view.

 

[Danny McG]

Fairy Nuff.
I don't mind if some ads were planned to be spelled wrong or poorly worded.
I've never felt an urge to correct Beanz Meanz Heinz

 

[Ursa major]

The question should be, is grammar necessary in advertising?

There's that old slogan advertising slogan for cream cakes (presumably because it put the pounds on in just the right places):

Naughty but. Nice!

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[farntfar]

I would be happy with it uncorrected.

If life had just as many worries as today, but they were all trivial (ie less) we would all be much happier.

 

[farntfar]

Although that might actually make them lesser worries, rather than less worries.

Incidentally (Very incidentally), according to wikipedia, James the Less had a brother called Jo (or Joses), and Zebedee was the father of James the Great. (Not the greater??!)
She springs up everywhere, that woman. It's all an advertising gimmick, set up 2000 odd years before she even wrote the books.

 

[Dave]

It isn't even a very good selling technique. People who take leaflets home rarely read them, let alone act upon them. They need to be getting people to hand over their bank details and sign on the dotted line right here now.