Oct. 29th, 2007 02:14 pm
Help me read the signs!
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muckefuckOn the way to work today, noticed something very strange. At the corner there are a couple of Bradford pears (a variety native to China, btw, where it is known as the 豆梨 or "bean pear"). Before I left, one of these had shed all its leaves. A number of trees in the vicinity didn't survive this past summer and I thought this was simply another casualty. But when I passed it this morning, I noticed something on the branches after all: blossoms. It is in full bloom. Obviously, a portent of something, but can anyone tell me what?
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monshu and I stopped into a coffee shop called "rbt" (in Chinese, 仙踪林 or "fairy footprint forest"). The marquee above the counter featured a montage of words for "tea" in various languages, such as English, Chinese/Japanese (茶), German (Tee), French (thé), Korean (차), and WTF ("ôóüé"). Clearly the firm which produced the design has a thing or two to learn about encoding foreign alphabets. Anyone have a guess as to what the intended word might have been? (I considered the possibility that it might be крокозябры, but AFAICT the characters would correspond to "фуьй" rather than the expected "чай".)
On the way to meet my cousin in Beijing,
monshu and I stopped into a coffee shop called "rbt" (in Chinese, 仙踪林 or "fairy footprint forest"). The marquee above the counter featured a montage of words for "tea" in various languages, such as English, Chinese/Japanese (茶), German (Tee), French (thé), Korean (차), and WTF ("ôóüé"). Clearly the firm which produced the design has a thing or two to learn about encoding foreign alphabets. Anyone have a guess as to what the intended word might have been? (I considered the possibility that it might be крокозябры, but AFAICT the characters would correspond to "фуьй" rather than the expected "чай".)