{"id":2894,"date":"2009-08-19T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2009-08-19T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:39:01","slug":"intercapitalization-infects-english-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/intercapitalization-infects-english-signage\/","title":{"rendered":"InTerCaPiTaLiZaTion InFects EnGlish SignAge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Churchman provided me with this shot from somewhere in China:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/08\/ToiLets.jpg\" alt=\"ToiLets (with an intercapped L)\" title=\"ToiLets\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"padding-bottom: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Mark Caltonhill sent me this instant classic several years ago from the streets of Taipei. But I may not have displayed it yet on this blog:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2009\/08\/TaiPei_RaiLway_StaTion.jpg\" alt=\"directional sign reading 'TaiPei RaiLway StaTion' (with a capital P in Taipei, a capital L in Railway and the second T capitalized in Station)\" title=\"TaiPei_RaiLway_StaTion\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The division of <em>railway<\/em> makes it even better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Churchman provided me with this shot from somewhere in China: And Mark Caltonhill sent me this instant classic several years ago from the streets of Taipei. But I may not have displayed it yet on this blog: The division &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/intercapitalization-infects-english-signage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[104,4,12,41,48,24,3],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-china","category-chinese","category-english","category-signage","category-taipei","category-taiwan","tag-intercapitalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}