"Nope. Don't." Contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Jenny Steeves (blog, Twitter).
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3:07 pm Tue
Nov 23, 2010
Don't Stay Here. (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
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In Japanese, it says something closer to “Please don’t linger around this area for an extended amount of time.”
Which, incidentally, was what I read in English.
Say, I should open a website with all the bad German encountered in US websites, literature and movies, but after seeing how much Apple has to pay for their server site, I think I won’t.
No camping!
You are not inside a banana.
Before I read dmunky’s comment I formed a whole different story in my head:
Japanese hotel with horrible service asks a guest to translate a “wet floor” sign or something similar for them to put in their lobby. Guest surreptitiously replaces their intended signage with a warning to other guests…
Wouldn’t dream of it. I’d soon feel like I was floating in a drug-testee’s urine specimen following an extended Mountain Dew bender.
Don’t stay here…but get out of there!
Just look at that paint job. Just look at it.
I want to thank you for that.
but i dont want to admit who i am
I’m reminded of a certain hallway in Metal Gear Solid 4. This sign deeply unsettles me; WHY can’t we linger?
Because Snake might blow this rocket launcher through the air vents around several corners in your direction, of course.
The more serious question is:
Why would you want to stay there?
I don’t get why people complain about English in Japan. Japan is by far the most navigable country with a non-Roman alphabet for English speakers because of the signage. It’s there entirely for your convenience and it’s usually correct or mostly correct, even if a bit terse. Would you prefer to go to Russia where there is approximately zero written English to tell you what to do? Or would you prefer going to China where the English is produced entirely by autotranslation, resulting in marvels like “Fuck to fry the cow river”?
About three years ago I worked on a project to help correct strange English on signs in a prominent building in Tokyo near Tokyo Station. Three years later, none of our suggestions were implemented. Not really much worth the time and effort put into the project. Although the horrid yellow walls do not ring a bell, the sign does. Who knows why nothing changed. Maybe they take pride in their Engrish and to change it would be too much to handle. ;)
I accept your proposition, disturbingly-yellow hallway.
This brings up the movie “The Cube”….
The ubiquitous paint color works with the sign to achieve the desired objective. Reminds me of the use of Baker-Miller “Pink” in psychiatric hospital seclusion rooms. There are highly saturated colors that are so unpleasant to the human eye and sensory apparatus that they are literally disabling. In this case, the color selected looks to prompt flight in order to discourage lingering. Brilliant.