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15 Minute Parking Only
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10 members have voted
| March 29th, 2019 at 7:50:30 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |  How do you interpret the meaning of this sign? Multiple votes allowed. Credit for the picture to Richard Brodie. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| March 29th, 2019 at 10:01:59 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |  Maybe he saw this sign, and didn't want to spring for the extra $25. So he just added a post it. |
| March 29th, 2019 at 10:26:35 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | The 'only' is redundant. Like saying 'tuna fish sandwich'. The only tuna is fish, so that makes saying 'fish' redundant. Hot water heater. Armed gunman. True fact. And my fave, Added Bonus. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| March 30th, 2019 at 3:14:34 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | it means it will take you 16 minutes to finish your transaction and some private towing company can show up and try to tow your vehicle under the claim that the clerk of that store cannot give you permission to overstay only the owner of the strip mall can do that. Often takes place across from one of the casinos, TI perhaps. Saw it on tv once. |
| March 30th, 2019 at 6:42:47 AM permalink | |
| zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 |
....slicing tomatoes, car ferry |
| March 30th, 2019 at 7:03:49 AM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 | DC current Future plans The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
| March 30th, 2019 at 2:48:56 PM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | I think it means if you park for 10 minutes only, you could get a ticket that happened to me once* that was a big fat whopper of a lie I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| March 30th, 2019 at 3:48:20 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I think that putting "only" after "parking," the only refers to parking. Meaning, you can't do other activities in the parking space like singing or dancing. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| March 30th, 2019 at 4:23:48 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Somebody probably told the owner they thought you had to park at least 15min, so he made the signs meaning clearer. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| March 30th, 2019 at 4:27:56 PM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 | Taken from the Cambridge Dictionary, as an adverb:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/only Since the only refers back to the verb, parking, it is stating that one may park for up to, or including, fifteen minutes. In order to mean that parking is the only activity permitted in the spot, or that the parking is STRICTLY limited to fifteen minutes (not a millisecond more or less) it would have to be stated as, "ONLY PARKING-FIFTEEN MINUTES," for the former, and, "ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTE PARKING," for the latter. The latter sentence would probably be interpreted the same as the sentence using, "Only," as an adverb rather than an adjective, but strictly speaking, it would mean that the parking is strictly to take place in fifteen minute intervals. In the OP, "Only," is clearly being used as an adverb. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |