{"id":798,"date":"2007-10-05T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/street-names-in-english-translation-trend-or-error\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T08:10:28","slug":"street-names-in-english-translation-trend-or-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/street-names-in-english-translation-trend-or-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Street names in English translation: trend or error?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TaipeiAh, Park Street: Taipei’s lovely tree-lined boulevard next to a wonderful oasis of well-manicured nature. <\/p>\n

Nope. <\/p>\n

Here, “park” refers to Nangang Software Park (Nángǎng Ruǎntǐ Yuánqū<\/span>, 南港軟體園區), an area in eastern Taipei of new buildings housing mainly software-development and biomedical companies. The software park itself is a pretty nice place and looks fine; its surrounding area, however, is anything but green and leafy, comprising mainly dreary brick buildings and vacant lots. <\/p>\n

But what’s odder than the name itself is that it appears in English<\/em> rather than in the mix of Hanyu Pinyin (with StuPid, StuPid InTerCapITaLiZaTion) and English (e.g., St., Rd.) that has become standard in Taipei. Also odd is that at one end of the street the signs read “Park St,” but at the other end “YuanQu St.” This is a fairly new street name, as the software park is only a few years old.<\/p>\n

\"Taipei<\/p>\n

The flash on my camera helps reveal that the part of the sign reading “YuanQu St.” is pasted on top of something else — quite possibly “Park St.” <\/p>\n

I spent about 15 minutes today getting my phone call to the Taipei City Government transferred from one desk to another before I was able to speak with someone who knew what she was doing. She stated that the Park Street version is in error and would be corrected to Yuanqu Street. <\/p>\n

I really wish I’d asked for her extension number, because I’m certain to be making similar calls in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Park Street: Taipei’s lovely tree-lined boulevard next to a wonderful oasis of well-manicured nature. Nope. Here, “park” refers to Nangang Software Park (Nángǎng Ruǎntǐ Yuánqū, 南港軟體園區), an area in eastern Taipei of new buildings housing mainly software-development and biomedical … 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":[15,41,20,19,48,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-english","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-signage","category-taipei","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}