Calling all Chinese language skeptics!

magnus1977
 November 15, 2008, 03:37 AM posted in General Discussion

Don't think you need to learn Chinese?

This guy thought so too!

Until he took out his camera... then was promptly arrested for taking photos.  Too bad he couldn't read Chinese.

Jin4 Zhi3 pai1 Zhao4

Any translations?

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bababardwan
 November 15, 2008, 03:51 AM

"Any translations?"...you already have....

禁止 Jin4zhi3 ..prohibited

拍照 pai1zhao4 ...to take a picture

It says it's probited to take pictures...very funny;I like it ,and you can just see it happening too.

Then down the bottom it encourages to study Chinese writing

and the hat looks like it just says China rocks

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cassielin
 November 15, 2008, 01:55 PM

禁止拍照jin4zhi3pai1zhao4=No photoing!

:-)

禁止吸烟jin4zhi3xi1yan1=No smoking

禁止停车jin4zhi3ting2che2=No parking

禁止入内jin4zhi3ru4nei4=No entering

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magnus1977
 November 16, 2008, 10:36 AM

yeah Cassielin... I wouldn't say NO PHOTOING... you can't add -ing to photo.  But you could say NO TAKING PHOTOS. or this one might be NO CAMERAS.  The security guard looks annoyed though...like there are many foreigners who usually take photos there... FUNNY!

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xiaohu
 November 16, 2008, 11:50 AM

cassielin

Yes, Magnus1977 is absolutely right, saying "No photoing" just isn't possible in English unless you're making up your own English derived language!

Actually, most of the time the signs say, "no cameras"

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magnus1977
 November 20, 2008, 01:58 AM

that's funny Xiaohu because there are many signs that are made up!!!