{"id":495,"date":"2007-01-16T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/taiwan-license-plates-and-english\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T09:51:01","slug":"taiwan-license-plates-and-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/taiwan-license-plates-and-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan license plates and English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/photo\/2006\/08\/23\/2005057878\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2006\/08\/license_plates.jpg\" alt=\"Taipei City councilors holding up signs resembling license plates with funny English: PIG-456 and EGG-008\" style=\"width: 157px; height: 172px; float: right;\" \/><\/a>It seems that <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/taiwan-to-abandon-use-of-4-on-license-plates\/\">ridding Taiwan license plates of the dreaded number 4<\/a> wasn&#8217;t enough. A Taipei city councilor, Tim Chang (Ch&#225;ng Zh&#333;ngti&#257;n \/ &#24120;&#20013;&#22825;) of the New Party, suggested last year that &#8220;drivers are making an ass of themselves&#8221; if they drive around with license plates that spell out something that is insulting, ill-omened, or funny in English. He called for such unfortunate combinations to be filtered out in advance and for motorists to be allowed to change their plate numbers. <\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Taipei Times<\/em> article on this notes, &#8220;License plates in Taiwan are made up of two alphabetic letters and four digits for cars, while license plates on scooters have three letters and three digits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People in Taiwan can change to another random plate number for NT$1,250 (approx. US$38), while personalized license plates cost at least NT$3,000. <\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2006\/08\/23\/2003324408\">Lucky number plate? Not for this ASS<\/a>, <em>Taipei Times<\/em>, August 23, 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that ridding Taiwan license plates of the dreaded number 4 wasn&#8217;t enough. A Taipei city councilor, Tim Chang (Ch&#225;ng Zh&#333;ngti&#257;n \/ &#24120;&#20013;&#22825;) of the New Party, suggested last year that &#8220;drivers are making an ass of themselves&#8221; if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/taiwan-license-plates-and-english\/\">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":[104,12,41,28,48,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-chinese","category-english","category-languages","category-signage","category-taipei","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}