{"id":287,"date":"2006-02-09T10:26:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T02:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hot-milk-road-and-other-street-name-errors\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:57:09","slug":"hot-milk-road-and-other-street-name-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/hot-milk-road-and-other-street-name-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hot-Milk Road’ and other street-name errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just 3.6 percent of Taipei’s street names need apostrophes. But those that need them really do need them, and Taipei’s ill-advised, counterproductive, and downright annoying<\/em> InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion on street signs is no substitute for doing things right.<\/p>\n

Because Taipei continues to omit required<\/em> apostrophes from street names, one of the city’s main thoroughfares is labeled the Mandarin equivalent of Hot-Milk Road. This is because according to the rules of Hanyu Pinyin RENAI is RE+NAI, not REN+AI. Thus, rather than a road named after rén’ài<\/span> (love for one’s fellow man; humanity; 仁愛), Taipei has rènǎi<\/span> (hot milk) road (熱奶路).<\/p>\n

I’m not going to bother giving all of the misleading readings, as I did in my earlier entry on mistakes in Taipei’s MRT system<\/a>. But there are plenty of awkward results of Taipei’s mistakes. <\/p>\n

Below are all of Taipei’s street names that require an apostrophe. Almost all of these contain the character 安 (an<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Note the tone marks on Tóng’ān St.<\/span> (同安街) and Tōng’ān St.<\/span> (通安街). More about those in a later entry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chinese characters<\/th>\nPinyin and English mix<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
保安街<\/td>\nBao’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
北安路<\/td>\nBei’an Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
博愛路<\/td>\nBo’ai Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
長安東路<\/td>\nChang’an E. Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
長安西路<\/td>\nChang’an W. Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
大安路<\/td>\nDa’an Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
惠安街<\/td>\nHui’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
民安巷<\/td>\nMin’an Ln.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
寧安街<\/td>\nNing’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
農安街<\/td>\nNong’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
仁愛路<\/td>\nRen’ai Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
瑞安街<\/td>\nRui’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
泰安街<\/td>\nTai’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
同安街<\/td>\nTóng’ān St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
通安街<\/td>\nTōng’ān St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
萬安街<\/td>\nWan’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
西安街<\/td>\nXi’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
新安路<\/td>\nXin’an Rd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
信安街<\/td>\nXin’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
興安街<\/td>\nXing’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
鍚安巷<\/td>\nYang’an Ln.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
永安街<\/td>\nYong’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
詔安街<\/td>\nZhao’an St.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 3.6 percent of Taipei’s street names need apostrophes. But those that need them really do need them, and Taipei’s ill-advised, counterproductive, and downright annoying InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion on street signs is no substitute for doing things right. Because Taipei continues to … 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":[12,32,20,48,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-signage","category-taipei","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}