Saturday, March 3, 2012

Mid-term bonus point

For those in my writing class at NYU: You get a bonus point on Monday's exam if you can figure out what Amtrak is trying to tell me in this message. Just post your answer here or add it to your answers on Monday evening. You may either try to explain the message in your own words or rewrite it to make its meaning clear.


Also, if you can can re-write this message in such a way as to make it more confusing, you get two points.

brandsinger

9 comments:

Larry Ackerman said...

the message is very simple: Please find an alternate form of transportation. We have no idea what we're doing.
Thank you. The Management

brandsinger said...

Bingo! - Larry, I think you have the best, most credible wording.

Thanks, compadre.

brandsinger

Jerry Kuyper said...

We are raising the points required for several of our travel awards. To avoid these higher points, simply book and begin your travel by April 1 2012. Later modifications will result in additional point costs.

Jerry Kuyper said...

We are raising the points required for several of our travel awards.

To avoid these higher points, simply book and begin your travel by April 1 2012.

Later modifications will result in additional point costs.

brandsinger said...

Thanks, Jerry... but boy, I dunno. "To avoid these higher points"? Shouldn't that be: "To avoid having to meet these new thresholds?" You don't avoid points.

Also, I have / and had / no idea what "point costs" are. I thought points come to you for traveling. What costs?

So either you haven't solved the problem or I'm as thick as an oak table. Or both.

brandsinger

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