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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 [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4545

Updated:

04/02/2013, 11:40

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

04/02/2013, 13:54

Date published:

04/02/2013, 11:38