{"id":25714,"date":"2016-05-13T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25714"},"modified":"2016-05-13T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:22:37","slug":"%e5%87%baxit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25714","title":{"rendered":"\u51faXIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Rusk thought Language Log readers might be interested in a bit of digraphia from Vancouver: an \u201cescape room\u201d company (on this phenomenon, see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escape_room\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escape_room&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1463240955500000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHak3OO2njyNqW63Yi0oNYIADwUg\">here<\/a>), with several locations in Vancouver and its environs, uses the Sinograph ch\u016b \u51fa (\"go out \/ forth; exit\") in place of the letter E in its name, \u201c\u51faXIT\u201d (where it looks like a doubled, rotated E). The logo looks like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/exit.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can see their website <a href=\"http:\/\/e-exit.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/e-exit.ca\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1463240955500000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQcY-y3dk3G6dlLlzcPzlN4KXprA\">here<\/a>, and you can see more of the signage in photos of their locations.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce says that he doesn't know whether their intended market is partly\/largely Chinese-literate, and how that might affect how customers interpret this logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Rusk thought Language Log readers might be interested in a bit of digraphia from Vancouver: an \u201cescape room\u201d company (on this phenomenon, see here), with several locations in Vancouver and its environs, uses the Sinograph ch\u016b \u51fa (\"go out \/ forth; exit\") in place of the letter E in its name, \u201c\u51faXIT\u201d (where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diglossia-and-digraphia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25766,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25714\/revisions\/25766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}