Why are silly signs posted all over China?
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| Can't you just say "Entrance" and "Exit"? |
Just on one day's outing in Suzhuo, a city of about 4 million people, I encountered multiple mess-ups. The particularly puzzling thing is that I had arrived by a fast new train that is so competently cutting edge. Why is the complicated engineering right and the syntax wrong?
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| Terrific Technology
You can't step away from the train without tripping over a small error.
Suzhou is known as the Venice of China, with canals, picturesque footbridges, and more than a dozen gardens designated as World Heritage sites. In one garden alone, known as the Humble Administrator's Garden, sign after sign was tortured text. Here is one example.
 
A sign at the visitors' center of the Yangtze River Dam.
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