Archive for Signs
May 23, 2019 @ 12:03 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Lost in translation, Signs
Seen on an entry door in San Francisco:
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May 13, 2019 @ 7:42 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Bilingualism, Phonetics and phonology, Pronunciation, Signs, Writing systems
Public notice in a ward in Tainan, Taiwan:
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May 6, 2019 @ 4:48 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and advertising, Phonetics and phonology, Pronunciation, Signs, Writing systems
Jenny Chu sent in this photograph of an ad on a Hong Kong subway car:
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May 6, 2019 @ 4:40 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Classification, Language and culture, Language and tourism, Signs, Writing, Writing systems
A friend was visiting in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (southwestern China) earlier this week. She stayed in Yuhu 玉湖 village where Joseph Rock (1884-1962; the famous Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist, and botanist) lived nearly a century ago at the foot of Yulong 玉龙 Mountain. The area around Lijiang has become a famous tourist destination, not only for the beauty of its natural scenery, but for the richness of its local culture (more about that below). While in Lijiang, my friend was surprised to come upon signs for unisex toilets:
Here is some signage for such toilets in China:
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April 11, 2019 @ 7:25 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Names, Signs
From June Teufel Dreyer:
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April 7, 2019 @ 11:19 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and politics, Language and society, Signs, Slang, Slogans
Mandy Chan saw this sign on Weibo (a major Chinese microblogging website) and challenged me to translate it:
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March 19, 2019 @ 7:13 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Bilingualism, Borrowing, Diglossia and digraphia, Signs
A sign warning against uncivilized behavior in the main bazaar in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region (Bloomberg):
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February 11, 2019 @ 12:13 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Lost in translation, Signs
From Yixue Yang:
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February 3, 2019 @ 11:37 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Errors, Signs, Writing systems
Sign in Beihai Municipality, Guangxi Province that is circulating on WeChat:
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February 2, 2019 @ 5:13 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Errors, Language and medicine, Signs
Photo taken in the reception area of a hospital:
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February 1, 2019 @ 8:52 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Lost in translation, Signs
Sign at the high-end Chinese hotpot chain Haidilao:
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January 23, 2019 @ 11:51 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Lost in translation, Signs
From Bobby Shore:
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January 15, 2019 @ 2:12 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Found in translation, Signs
Anne Henochowicz spotted this sign in a shopping mall in Central, Hong Kong:
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