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Waiting for the Bus!

What is the worst nightmare for a nerd hardworking copywriter who has done all the necessary research and nailed down his beloved copy?🙃  It is absolustely this tiny typo mistake like a little pebble in his shoe!  This billboard is one of the giants in El Tayaran Street, at Nasr City, Egypt.  Waiting, bored, shivering from cold, and tired as usual from a working day as a content creator and copywriter, I just found this billboard, advertising for an important showroom!!  I've been startled for seconds because of this fatal mistake! I guess you, reader, can point it out very easilyyy! The billboard says: "انضم إلى من أكبر معرض تجاري أفريقي"!  How is it "انضم إلى من"?  It is linguistically and semantically wrong in Arabic! And from a marketing point of view, this is called "a jeopridaize for the brand/company image" 🙆‍♀️ Poor copywriter!  Some may claim that I am exaggerating, but no! Such a mistake is hilarious, and especially if this billboard has be

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