Friday, August 15, 2008

DUMPING PlACE


Just in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jessica J found this GARBAGE DUMPING PlACE on a train in China. This one is particularly interesting because the sign looks like it was printed using a computer type font, so the printer must have consciously chosen to use a lowercase L instead of keeping the caps lock on for the entire word. It's also worth noting that English was probably not the native written script language of the author, so the distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters might be an unfamiliar concept to him. Anyway, they certainly put this sign in the correct PlACE.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'd say this was more and uppercase "i" in the right sans font. PIACE. Typical of chinese copied translations where any similar letter will do.