Melbourne uni

Melbourne University, 25th July 2013, 206 pm.

Large billboard….”visit Australia’s world standard university”.

It confused me for a millisecond, wondering why they would advertise themselves as “standard”. And then of course I realised that they had forgotten the hyphen.

They should have gone the whole hog and advertised “universe-standard”; that’s seems more appropriate.

Even so, “standard” implies the median to me. D’oh. They probably need to say “world leading”. Or “top ten southern hemisphere”.

Or they could just stop telling lies.