Archive for Signs
How many characters does it take to say "staff only"?
In sending along the photograph below, Geoff Dawson writes:
I find it hard to believe it takes nine characters. Curious as to what they really say.
From a furniture shop in South Melbourne Australia.
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Don't Occupy Your Seat
With apologies for the glare from the plastic covering, this sign comes from the canteen at Lingnan University in Hong Kong:
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Open fire
Tim Frost found this sign last (southern hemisphere) summer at a lakeside in Argentina, near San Martin de los Andes.
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Omnibus Chinglish, part 3
Still more fun (see parts 1 and 2 on Chinglish examples from WeChat).
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Omnibus Chinglish, part 2
More fun with Chinglish examples from WeChat (see part 1 here).
Yantai
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Orthographic-crosslingual pun
Xiaowan Cai received this picture from a friend of hers who is on exchange from Oxford University at Kyoto University. Everything in all four languages on the sign looks pretty normal, except that there is a not easily detectable, extraordinary gaffe — or ingenious tour de force — in the Chinese.
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Another multilingual, multiscriptal sign in Taiwan
Mark Swofford sent in this photograph of a clever, curious sign at an automobile repair shop in Taiwan:
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