{"id":28902,"date":"2016-10-24T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2016-10-24T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:19:50","slug":"multilingual-beach-ball-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=28902","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual beach ball warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this very impressive warning at Siesta Key beach in Sarasota, Florida yesterday morning:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/beachball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/beachball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The English at the top is concise and specific, a distinguishing feature that we have observed before, e.g., \"<a title=\"Permanent link to French vs. English\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=20367\">French vs. English<\/a>\" (8\/2\/15).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the sheer multiplicity of languages represented, what struck me most about the different versions is that they didn't seem to be constrained by the wording of the English, but set off in their own directions to provide a meaningful warning that often added something useful not in the original, but also just as often left out a significant element of the original.\u00a0 For instance, the Chinese reads:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Zh\u00f9y\u00ec!\u00a0 F\u0113i ji\u00f9sh\u0113ng sh\u00e8b\u00e8i, j\u01d0n g\u014dng z\u00e0i ch\u00e9ngni\u00e1nr\u00e9n ji\u0101nh\u00f9 xi\u00e0 qi\u01censhu\u01d0 zh\u014dng sh\u01d0y\u00f2ng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u6ce8\u610f! \u975e\u6551\u751f\u8bbe\u5907, \u4ec5\u4f9b\u5728\u6210\u5e74\u4eba\u76d1\u62a4\u4e0b\u6d45\u6c34\u4e2d\u4f7f\u7528.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"Notice!\u00a0 Not a lifesaving device, [should] only be used in shallow water under the supervision of an adult.\"<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that \"competent supervision\" is not an easy expression to convey in many languages.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I've got the ball rolling&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to Katherine Warren and Maiheng Dietrich]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this very impressive warning at Siesta Key beach in Sarasota, Florida yesterday morning:<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multilingualism","category-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902","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=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29026,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions\/29026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}