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Does anyone know what these signs mean? (Probably Chinese?)

WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051
edited October 2020 in The Commons

Does anyone know what these signs mean? (I think they are Japanese) Would like to know before purchasing. Thanks!  

Edited, I guess Chinese..? This comes with a pole dancing stage so I just wanted to make sure there’s nothing pornographic here...

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  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,440
    edited October 2020

    Looks to be Chinese. Yellow sign in the middle of the top row says Street Food Roast Chicken according to google translate. And the one in the bottom row with the guy holding a camera is an art gallery. I'd guess either the artist knows Chinese or these were adapted from real signs.

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051
    TesseractSpace said:

    WLooks to be Chinese. Yellow sign in the middle of the top row says Street Food Roast Chicken according to google translate. And the one in the bottom row with the guy holding a camera is an art gallery. I'd guess either the artist knows Chinese or these were adapted from real signs.

    Ah, OK, the PA is Ansiko which sounded Japanese to me...

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,062

    Thanks for this thread: I can always use more signs. I had this on my wishlist, but I took it off.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051
    xyer0 said:

    Thanks for this thread: I can always use more signs. I had this on my wishlist, but I took it off.

    Do you know what the rest mean?

  • missuskissesmissuskisses Posts: 918

    One of them is in Japanese (lower right corner in pink). First letter is kanji, so Chinese, and means "dream"; can't read the rest. Everything else is Chinese, and some of them are backwards. 

    I know some Chinese but am not good with slang. One of them (wine glass with yellow horizontal text) says sexy hens, so I'm guessing sexy chicks? Then there's the kitty cat one, which is backwards, something like kitty girls? The rest are pretty innocuous, dance hall, restaurants, pharmacies, etc.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,191
    missuskisses said:

    One of them is in Japanese (lower right corner in pink). First letter is kanji, so Chinese, and means "dream"; can't read the rest. Everything else is Chinese, and some of them are backwards. 

    "noa", which I'm assuming is "noir".

    Top left is for a Vietnamese restaurant, although I can't quite make out the characters farthest to the right. To the right, the bottom two characters mean "cost", but I can't tell what the top one is. From the parts of the other signs I can read, I'm with missuskisses in thinking that there's nothing to worry about.

  • Five13Five13 Posts: 69
    edited October 2020

    The one with the cat says naked girls. And as already pointed out that one is mirrored so the text is the wrong way around. If the vendor understands Chinese characters at all then that is a rather embarrassing mistake to have made.

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  • The Blurst of TimesThe Blurst of Times Posts: 2,410

    Well, the promos have this cat thing the right way.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051

    Interesting. So some is Chinese and some is Japanese? And some backwards? I almost wish the PA had created their own futuristic alien language or something...

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    Wonderland said:

    Interesting. So some is Chinese and some is Japanese? And some backwards? I almost wish the PA had created their own futuristic alien language or something...

    Japanese uses two different character styles, remember. One is more or less the same as Chinese ideograms, the other is a phonetic alphabet.

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,500
    Wonderland said:

    Interesting. So some is Chinese and some is Japanese? And some backwards? I almost wish the PA had created their own futuristic alien language or something...

    The problem with created alphabets is that they look wrong and, in this case, asian alphabets fit in well with the theme while an alien one won't.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,191
    Wonderland said:

    Interesting. So some is Chinese and some is Japanese? 

    Chinese was like Latin was for Europe: for a long time, if you were an educated Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese etc. person, you read and wrote Chinese. Native forms of writing were developed later to represent the languages as actually spoken. Japanese still makes heavy use of Chinese characters (kanji) in addition to hiragana and katakana, which represent phonetic sounds (but are actually syllabaries, not alphabets).

     

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