Language Log

Restaurant sign in Mayfair:

Neil Kubler spotted this restaurant sign last week in Xi'an in northwest China:

Thai sign over a sink in a restroom, from Alexander Bukh on Facebook:

From Nora Castle, who came across this restaurant which has just opened in Coventry, England:

From the Facebook page of the Hong Kong poet, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, president of PEN Hong Kong, as reproduced in Andrea Lingenfelter, "At This Moment, Everyone Is a Revolution: The Poems of Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and the Hong Kong Crisis", Blog // Los Angeles Review of Books (8/4/19):

Photograph in the Wall Street Journal, "Hong Kong Protesters Fill Streets in District With History of Violent Clashes:  Police are under pressure to contain weeks of tear-gas-soaked demonstrations against mainland China's growing influence", by John Lyons and Joyu Wang (8/3/19):

[This is a guest post by Brendan O'Kane]

Like pretty much everyone else I know, I've been following the news out of Hong Kong with a mixture of hope and admiration and absolute dread. I was looking at reports from yesterday's rally in support of the police when something caught my eye: the sign text in this image:

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Interesting combination of scripts for the Military Bookstore on Dì'ān mén xī dàjiē 地安门西大街 (" Di'anmen West Street") (lots of concrete barriers out front!):

Klaus Nuber writes: "Sometime ago I saw the sign of this 'Asia Palast' with the logo consisting of the two chairs and the round dingus between. Is this logo just cute or has it a hanzi background?"

Sign on a toilet door:

Source:  "In the first flush:  China's toilet revolution remains in full swing", Week in China 453 (5/24/19)

Sign on a municipal bus in San Francisco:

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As most people are aware, Australia had its general election last week.  Chinese politicians and signs promoting them were very much in evidence.  Here's an example of one that caused a lot of controversy:

Seen on an entry door in San Francisco: