{"id":718,"date":"2007-05-13T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/chabuduo-jiu-keyi\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:35:33","slug":"chabuduo-jiu-keyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/chabuduo-jiu-keyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chabuduo jiu keyi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to signage and much else in Taiwan, the phrase ch&#224;budu&#333; ji&#249; k&#283;y&#464; (&#24046;&#19981;&#22810;&#23601;&#21487;&#20197;) might qualify as the country&#8217;s unofficial motto. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Close_enough_for_government_work\">Close enough for government work<\/a>&#8221; is probably the best idiomatic translation. <\/p>\n<p>The railway-station sign in this photo in many ways exemplifies this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2007\/05\/xinzhu_rr_i.jpg\" alt=\"Hsinchu Jhubei Shiangshan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rather than list all of the errors and oddities of this sign, I thought I&#8217;d let readers have a go at this one. How many errors and problematic points can you find?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to signage and much else in Taiwan, the phrase ch&#224;budu&#333; ji&#249; k&#283;y&#464; (&#24046;&#19981;&#22810;&#23601;&#21487;&#20197;) might qualify as the country&#8217;s unofficial motto. &#8220;Close enough for government work&#8221; is probably the best idiomatic translation. The railway-station sign in this photo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/chabuduo-jiu-keyi\/\">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":[104,12,15,1,106,32,20,19,48,3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-general","category-hanyu","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-signage","category-taiwan","category-tongyong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}