{"id":2688,"date":"2009-07-18T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2018-08-27T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:32:22","slug":"intercapitalization-the-beijing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/intercapitalization-the-beijing-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion: the Beijing trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my relief, I saw very little in the way of the orthography-killing cancer that is InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion while I was in Beijing. <\/p>\n

The worst offender I spotted was the cover to Qǐyè yǔ xíngzhèng jīguān chángjiàn yìngyòngwén xiězuò dàquán<\/span> (企业与行政机关常见应用文写作大全 \/ 企業與行政機關常見應用文寫作大全), which to me just screams out “UGly NightMare”. But at least the word parsing is right, which is more than can be said for many uses of Pinyin in China. <\/p>\n

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Note that the image is flipped:
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More troubling, because it is on official signage, is the use of intercaps on some station guides above the doors of subway cars.<\/p>\n

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\nThe capitalization of “Of” demonstrates that the bro-ken and InTerCaPiTaLized “Bei Jing” is probably due more to standard sloppiness than design. At least I certainly hope no one did that on purpose. <\/p>\n

Fortunately, that usage isn’t found throughout the subway system, as this photo from a map of another line shows.
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Reports of what style is to be found on other Beijing subway lines — especially the newest ones — would be welcome. <\/p>\n

And Randy<\/a> spotted this one:
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But that appears to be a one-off, since the Beijing Vikings<\/a> don’t use that style on their Web site or elsewhere that I noticed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my relief, I saw very little in the way of the orthography-killing cancer that is InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion while I was in Beijing. The worst offender I spotted was the cover to Qǐyè yǔ xíngzhèng jīguān chángjiàn yìngyòngwén xiězuò dàquán (企业与行政机关常见应用文写作大全 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,12,106,32,20,19,48],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-chinese","category-hanyu","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-signage","tag-intercapitalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}