{"id":1242,"date":"2008-08-22T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:24:50","slug":"park-street-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/park-street-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Street redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you may recall, last October I wrote about finding official signs for a Taipei street that used English rather than romanization (Street names in English translation: trend or error?<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Some of the signs for what is written in Hanzi “園區街” (Yuánqū Jiē<\/span>) read, in Taipei’s standard but stupid InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion, “YuanQu St.” while others read “Park St.” (which, by the way, is a misleading translation). I called the Taipei City Government about this and was informed that Park<\/em> was an error and that the signs would be fixed to read Yuanqu<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Nearly a year has gone by since then. Have any of the street signs been changed? <\/p>\n

The answer is yes. The signs, including some new ones, are indeed consistent. All of them now read — have you guessed it yet? — “Park St.”<\/p>\n

That’s right: They eliminated the signs that were correct and put up new signs that are wrong<\/em>. I’m trying to relax, so I won’t write out all of the many maledictions I have been muttering about Taipei City Government and its bureaucracy. <\/p>\n

Here’s one of the street signs in October 2007:
\n\"YuanQu<\/p>\n

Here’s the same sign in August 2008:
\n\"Park<\/p>\n

A close-up, showing how “Park” was pasted over “YuanQu”.
\n\"closeup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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