Japanese stop signs don’t use English and are triangular.
Hmm. Maybe you’re right.
Nope, they say STOP. (and it is my impression that ‘Stop’ is not perceived as a foreign-language word. We also use ‘stoppen’ as a verb.)
Zombie crossing. STOP.
In much of the Mid East the signs are red octagons with Arabic writing:
قف
It is also usually in English as well on the same sign.
I am amused that Alessan posted both today and a decade ago in this thread, and someone today quoted one of his older messages.
Reminder to self: whenever I have a chance to go to Israel I’ll bring along a bunch of large Saruman stickers…
This is a zombie thread, but the answer to the OP is, of course, that many countries use stop signs with something else than “STOP” written on them. The red octogon is an international standard, but what is written on it can be “STOP” or can be a phrase in the local language.
The usage does not even have to be consistent: see stop signs in Cree, Cree and English, French and Cree, and English, Cree and French. (Note that even the Cree text itself doesn’t seem consistent, but since I don’t read Cree, I can’t say for sure.)
Does any place outside Canada use those “no stopping” signs, a black octogon inside a red circle (second sign on this page)? I know American road signs are usually more verbose than Canadian ones which rely more on symbols, but perhaps it is used in other countries.
There are red and white stop signs on the corners of the village where I grew up. In addition, there is a little sign underneath, also red and white, that expounds upon this: “this means you”. They actually make stop signs like this, for the bone-headed, I guess.
I’ve got a picture from my road trip in Peru with a stop sign in Spanish that says “Pare”.
Alessan that is awesome. Sort of a temporal hat trick.
There seem to be three different spellings on the Cree signs.
It’s like I have a direct line to myself of ten years ago.
Hey, **Alessan **of 2000! Buy Google stock! Don’t hold your breath for the next George R.R. Martin book!
No, no, Zombie Crossing signs are always yellow, not red.
None of those links resolved. They give me either 404 errors or generic pages from the host.
Psst, look at the date they posted.
It actually contradicts no law since, odd as that seems, “stop” is a word that English borrowed from French. It became close to, but not quite, obsolete in French. Ultimately it does come from Latin and not any Germanic tongue. In my suburb, all the stop signs say “stop”.
Oh shit, run over by a speeding zombie. :smack:
Stop signs in Hong Kong are also bilingual.
Another thing people don’t know: Until 1954, stop signs were yellow. Except in California.
Every day, I feel like I know less and less about Judaism…