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Language Log 2013-04-02
Summary:
Daniel Tse spotted this sign in Seoul recently:The Korean says: juchageumji 주차금지 = 駐車禁止 = No ParkingThis is from Japanese: chūsha kinshi 駐車禁止In Mandarin, for "No Parking", it would be more common to write one of the following:jìnzhǐ tíngchē 禁止停车bùdé tíngchē 不得停车bù zhǔn tíngchē 不准停车In Cantonese, this would be expressed as bat1 zeon2 paak3 [...]