Monday, November 17, 2008

foreign language quotation marks


Terence saw this in taipei and translates:
"Free"
Unlimited Internet
Inside
Non-smoking area.

Terence also comments, "I love it because the English-language quotation mark is a fairly recent import to Chinese, but its overuse is now apparently OK."
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3 comments:

  1. James Gilmore17/11/08 1:17 PM

    Those look like exclamation points used as quotation marks... is that worth extra Unnecessary Quotation Mark Points?

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  2. Seolyk18/11/08 12:25 PM

    aww someone beat me to it. i agree they look more like exclamation points than quotation marks.

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  3. S.21/11/08 1:49 PM

    I especially like that the sign says non-smoking area, yet the cig is circled and not crossed out.

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