Classic sign examples
Classic sign examples
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Check out this thread for some great examples of language use in signs:
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On another front....
Seen on the ring road around Coventry (sorry no pics)
Welcome to Coventry
Home of Coventry University
Well duh!
Kev
Kevin
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Welcome to Plymouth
Spirit of Disco
Someone had half inched the "very".
- Steve
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It actually has information in Chinese, Korean and Japanese as well as the helpful English.
The Chinese text is something about a forest and hot springs (or possibly lava).
The Japanese is something about a mountain.
I don't read Korean or English...
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so you don't read English..?
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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So...why'd you post back to her in English?
We all know that she NEVER makes mistakes...
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Parking
For
Employees
Only
Monday
Thru
Friday
How would you interpret that?
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Classic, but it makes sense if you have actually used a squat toilet.
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Seems to me like it's a sign warning you that you may hit your head... on the sign itself.
Kind of like those signs that say "Warning: This sign has sharp edges"
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Bill
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- Steve
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To reduce the page load time. Some people are still on dial-up. Having to load the images every time the thread is reviewed can be a real PITA.
Also, when using the Engineering.com image upload utility, it's an extra step or two to create an embedded image.
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or is it a cave man spearing a mamoth?
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Hg
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Disabling images downstream (i.e. in the browser) is the generally accepted solution to this problem.
Which is why you scale your image prior to posting. Given the number of linked 3 megapixel images I come across this obviously isn't a popular concept.
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Greg Locock
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Found another one that I love.....
At the entrance to a farm that I pass on my way home every night! (All you civil eng types should get this one I hope, remember that you have to have a dirty mind)
'Wanted Clean Hardcore'
Genius! I know what he means but what possible use is clean hardcore, other than keeping down on toilet paper use at home.....
Kevin
"It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown
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Not that I'm trying to imply anything about legislators here.
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Sign on the first floor landing: "Please note that the office of the Consulate of Never-Never Land* is on the 4th floor."
Sign on the second floor landing: "Please note that the office of the Consulate of Never-Never Land is on the 4th floor."
Sign on the third floor landing: "Please note that the office of the Consulate of Never-Never Land is on the 4th floor."
Sign on the fourth floor landing: "Consulate of Never-Never Land. Access by the elevator only."
*The name has been changed to protect the identity of an actual sovereign nation.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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It reads:
GE
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KENAT,
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(Hokie66, what were you doing in the ladies?)
(er, in my defence, isn't his the country with such terms of endearment for significant others as "Bush Pig, Swamp Hog and Glamour Maggot?" or has it all changed now?)
OK, you can go ahead and red flag me now.
JMW
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It's people like you that lull me into thinking I am PC enough to get by here in CA.
Then I open my mouth in front of the wrong person, and once again am proven wrong.
Was it the changing table that attracted the dingo?
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The water in the toilet tank and the water in the bowl are in rather different situations. Depending on how much you trust your valves, the water in the toilet tank can be pretty clean. I'll stick my hand in the tank to mess about with the fixture if the toilet is "running" and have encountered toilets for which the only way to flush them was to reach in and pull up the plug by hand; I don't believe I've ever had my hand in a bowl.
On the other hand, if the tank is behind a bolted wall panel, then yeah, the sign's pretty funny.
Hg
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Yeah, that's the point. It's just a flush valve on the wall, no tank or cistern accessible.
Kenat, jmw,
Our dogs in Australia are hardy enough to drink out of toilet bowls. Anyway, most of them can't read.
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The first example is where a building company put up a sign in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) in English and Welsh, locals wanted Doric, the local dialect of which I have never heard.
Aberdeen, I can tell you, means "between the Dee and the Don" the two local rivers.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5321588.stm)
Second is a sign in Wales where the Welsh Translation didn't match the English:
I don't know what they had against cyclists, but the translation was very amusing; "Cyclists dismount" translated to "bladder inflammation upset".
(http:
Another Welsh example to hit the news recently:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm)
"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential Site only."
The Welsh Translation read: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".
The best comment on all this bilingual sign nonsense was in the TV series Due South where a lorry was stopped by the Canadian police (Mountie) and the driver ticketed because the graffiti on the truck was in only one language.
JMW
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm
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"WARNING: THIEVES OPERATE IN THIS AREA"
No wonder the UK Health Service is so impoverished!
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"Drive thru parking only"
I chuckle every time I see them.
David
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While it is amusing to see how some poor foreigner has arrived at an English translation it is intensely embarrassing to see badly written signs in the sign writers native language.
Recent signs I liked: another Welsh to English (with no explanation/excuse given) was for a cliff edge where the sign says "Danger" and below that "Sheep Drop" (should this be "lover's leap"?)
Another that posted the hours of opening as 10:00 a.m. to 20:00 p.m. Oh dear, does that mean there is a 20:00 a.m.? No wonder I am so frequently late. This wasn't the reason the sign was included, it had some other funnies, but I would guess it doesn't matter what your native language is, 20:00 p.m. is nonsense.
JMW
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"BREAST AWARENESS MONTH".
I think they left out a word.
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Parking for the Drive-Thru at McD's is a buffer space they send you to when your order will take a while to fill, so they can speed up the line. They then bring your order out to you when ready. Without an assigned space, they wouldn't know where you went.
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I for once certainly wouldn't loiter near the bottom of a cliff if I knew there was a good chance that someone was going to drop a sheep on me!
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I got it from the site giftsforengineers dot com.
If you "heard" it on the internet, it's guilty until proven innocent. - DCS
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www.signspotting.com
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L9vdkE-FUr8
She should ask for "Abschied Ist Ein Scharfes Schwert" (Parting is a sharp sword)
However, what poor Ingrid kept saying was:
"Abschied Ist Ein Schwere Schafe"
Schwere Schafe means "heavy sheep".
Somewhere in the radio recording she even manages sharp sheep (I think) and as the recording goes along she gets worse, not better.
The Radio DJ is surprisingly unamused, don't you think?
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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"Half way through baking, turn the foil (round not upside down) to ensure even browning."
- Steve
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"Going out for business."
Yeah...
Dan
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"Only dogs with valid travel documents and guide dogs will be allowed."
Hmm,
I just had this vision of a tourist dog being shown around the airport by an official "Intourist" dog guide.
JMW
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