{"id":8058,"date":"2019-11-12T19:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:40:00","slug":"follow-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2019\/follow-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a reader of Pinyin.info the other day, which has had me feeling guilty for not posting anything in recent months. So here&#8217;s something I wrote nearly a year ago but never posted. The sign is now long gone, but the linguistic points remain the same. <\/p>\n<p>Near the Banqiao train station is this sign, which advertises small apartments. (At just 13 or 14 <em>ping<\/em>, counting the shares of all of the &#8220;public&#8221; spaces, they are basically tiny.) It has a lot of points of note for so little text: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese characters are used to write an English word: &#30332;&#27155; (f&#257;l&#243;u) = follow.<\/li>\n<li>English (&#8220;Follow me&#8221;) is used as well as Mandarin. <\/li>\n<li>Numbers are used to write a Mandarin word: 94, i.e., ji&#468; s&#236; (&#20061;&#22235;) = ji&#249;sh&#236; (&#23601;&#26159;).  Note also that this works despite the tones being different. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#30332;&#27155;ME (with the English &#8220;Follow me&#8221; there for clarity as well)<br \/>\n13&#22378;.14&#22378;<br \/>\n&#25910;&#31199;&#20154;&#29983;94&#29245;<br \/>\n&#21578;&#21029;&#31199;&#38538;&#21451; live your life<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"image of the large billboard discussed in this post\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2018\/12\/follow_me-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a reader of Pinyin.info the other day, which has had me feeling guilty for not posting anything in recent months. So here&#8217;s something I wrote nearly a year ago but never posted. The sign is now long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2019\/follow-me\/\">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":[110,12,15,41,28,32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banqiao","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-english","category-languages","category-mandarin","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","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=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}