ImperfectPixie
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We have one, and I was never a fan of the monoliths. There are much prettier ways to display people's pics.
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News New Park Entrance coming to Epcot
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You beat me to it! Both the typography and signage are very cool.The typography
The typography
You're letting typographical nostalgia blind you to poor grammar.
Timothy_Q
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Only 1 guest without bags allowed, and it's me
It was a pretty intense fight to the death for all of us. That missing “s” really put a damper on a lot of folks vacations...
Disney was happy to sell bags to everyone else so they could get in.
I take it you didn’t go in 1982?Just like 1982. Kudos to the project team.
jt04
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I meant that it has the atmosphere of the opening not the exact configuration. The station and surroundings look new.
G00fyDad
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It is funny looking but the wording is actually correct. It is for a "guest without bags" since only one guest goes through at a time.
If it's funny looking, then that is usually the cue that it's not normal.
The presumed missing descriptor isn't 'a", it's 'all". It's meant to direct a crowd.
ImperfectPixie
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This kind of grammatical error makes me crazy. "Guest Entrance" is correct. "Guest without Bags" is incorrect. Someone copied and pasted and didn't read through what they were doing (which is an easy enough mistake to make, but is also why I implemented an in-house proofing stage).
G00fyDad
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I meant that it may be funny looking to others, not me. To me it makes perfect sense. Guest with bags / Guest without bags
I do not take a bag into the parks so I would stand in the "guest without bags" line. But, I understand how some people see this and get confused. Please don't mistake my comments as condescending. It isn't an intelligence thing that I am talking about. Just a perception thing.
Monorail_Orange
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Alternative theory: given the custom typeface, perhaps they only have room for x number of characters, and "Guests Without Bags" was x+1. So the choice became "Guest Without Bags" or "Guests W/out Bags"?
Goofyernmost
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So we complain when we are not treated as individuals and complain when we are because something that is right just "doesn't sound right to us". It is correct either way. One is herd mentality and the other is speaking directly to individuals. I'll take "Guest" every time, then they are talking directly to me.
Timothy_Q
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Typography is scalable
@ImperfectPixie has the right idea. In the phrase "Guest Entrance", the word 'guest' is being used as an adjective (happens a lot in English, like Eiffel Tower or pedestrian crossing). Adjectives rarely are declined in the plural form (look at the yellows flowers!). Another way of constructing a similar sentiment is to create an adjectival form for 'guest', such as 'Guestal Entrance'.
In the phrase "Guest without bags", it is usually understood that since "guest" is being used as a noun, then the noun should be declined to take the plural form, "guests."
However, you, @G00fyDad, are interpreting the whole phrase as an adjectival phrasal modifier of "line". You're thinking, "this is a guest line", more specifically, "a guest without bags line." In that case, then, yes, "guest" used as an adjective and thus would be singular in form.
Of course, you're entirely wrong for throwing an understood "line" onto the phrase.
Reason number 57,164,657 of why the English language sucks.@ImperfectPixie has the right idea. In the phrase "Guest Entrance", the word 'guest' is being used as an adjective (happens a lot in English, like Eiffel Tower or pedestrian crossing). Adjectives rarely are declined in the plural form (look at the yellows flowers!). Another way of constructing a similar sentiment is to create an adjectival form for 'guest', such as 'Guestal Entrance'.
In the phrase "Guest without bags", it is usually understood that since "guest" is being used as a noun, then the noun should be declined to take the plural form, "guests."
However, you, @G00fyDad, are interpreting the whole phrase as an adjectival phrasal modifier of "line". You're thinking, "this is a guest line", more specifically, "a guest without bags line." In that case, then, yes, "guest" used as an adjective and thus would be singular in form.
Of course, you're entirely wrong for throwing an understood "line" onto the phrase.