Comments | linguaphiles: Thought you guys might enjoy

yareach in linguaphiles

Thought you guys might enjoy

Jan 18, 2005 23:46

They are renovating the tram stops in Zurich at the moment, to make all the curbs higher so that it's easier to get on the trams. Anyway, at the tram stop near the main station, they decided to put a "high step" warning on the curb to make sure people didn't trip. I guess they wanted to make sure everyone understood:

( (picture intensive -- you have been warned) )

humor, photos

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:=Þ akasha_orsini January 18 2005, 22:46:38 UTC

lmao. I can see why you were laughing. lmao

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yareach January 18 2005, 22:53:18 UTC

That's because it is Swedish, and I'm a complete moron! I'd switched the pictures, without switching the name. Should be ok now, thank you!

;) czas_na_zywiec January 18 2005, 22:55:29 UTC

They must not like us Poles either. I feel your pain.

ermenengilda January 18 2005, 22:49:45 UTC

I suppose it doesn't really matter, but the language next to Spanish is definitely not Czech :-)
How readable does Egyptian appear, though ;-)

ex_stephmog743 January 18 2005, 23:09:37 UTC

It looks like Serbo-Croat to me.

z111 January 19 2005, 02:06:41 UTC

There is no "Egyptian" language anymore. They speak Arabic.

kaikias January 19 2005, 08:23:14 UTC

Well, yes, but that text is in Ancient Egyptian.

squodge January 18 2005, 22:56:13 UTC

That has GOT to be the funniest set of photos I've ever seen! GOOD WORK!

~ squodge ~

tydaj January 18 2005, 22:59:38 UTC

Nice!
I'm guessing the Asian ones are Chinese and Japanese, respectively. From what I can tell the Chinese like using a lot less characters to express things than their neighbours to the east.

daemon_will January 18 2005, 23:23:31 UTC

Something to do with the Japanese using what started as a Chinese script to write a completely different type of language, I think. I have just started being interested in East Asian languages, particularly Mandarin and Japanese.

Pleased to meet you all, this is all fascinating.

邪魔威尔

marzipan_sunday January 19 2005, 04:47:44 UTC

the japanese borrowed some characters from chinese, but couldn't pronounce them like the chinese so they began their own language - at least that's what i've been told by my eastern cultures teacher, who is japanese. i'm pretty sure the chinese can also read the sign which is in japanese.

dontbeakakke January 19 2005, 05:25:36 UTC

began their own language

By this I seriously hope you mean "They began their own written language" and not just... language. If the latter, consider dropping out of school...

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