Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Europe, the system of road signs has long been standardized, has nothing to do with the EU--already back in the 1960s, when I was a child in Poland, the Communist countries too used the same signs as everyone else. Most of them are pictograms or numbers in red circles etc., but the word STOP is universally used, even in countries whose language uses another word for the verb "to stop". Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Philippe Amard wrote: > STOP is used in France too - it may look that the English language > is in real danger. > Well this is a theory that is becoming accepted among linguists ... > Speak globish ... > http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&ei=OEWlSs2XAsbajQeYieGzDg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=hagege+globish&spell=1 > > > <http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&ei=OEWlSs2XAsbajQeYieGzDg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=hagege+globish&spell=1 > > > > > Amiti?s > Philippe > > > Doug Herr wrote: > >> Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> >> >>> On the way home from Perpignan yesterday afternoon: >>> >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#642089197_nTvDt-O-LB >>> >>> >> >> I am also pleased to see this building is abandoned, but I'm >> curious about the message painted on the roadway: is "STOP" >> universal? I noticed it in Germany a couple of years ago too. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information