Confused me a bit because primary school children already know this, but then I realised places like the US and Canada have very different signs
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Yeah in North America we use English on road signs. Possibly sometimes French and Spanish. Wouldn't be surprised if I saw some in German or Pennsylvania Dutch in the rural Midwest.
Got my theory test on Wednesday so perfect timing
Translated to bananas to make it easier for Americans to understand, but actual EU traffic signs are in metric.
What's the conversion to plantain?
There's also the upside down triangle banana:
GIVE WAY TO A BANANAAnd a hexagon banana:
STOP THE BANANA
or STOP IF YOU'RE A BANANA or STOP FOR BANANA'S quite confusing now
Yeah idk, I guess it'd probably actually mean that 🍌 means stop in the local language 😅
This is starting to sound like a fun indie puzzle game.
Banana is you
It seems like the basic version of Chants of Sennaar, where you have to discover the meaning of languages based on the context in which you see different words/symbols.
I'm imagining like a "Bop it" scenario where your action has to correspond to the sign's intention (extra mental hurdle you have to perform). You could increase the speed for difficulty or start throwing in additional road signs from around the world you would have to learn the meaning of.
More precisely:
Possible banana(s).
You must banana/for bananas.
No bananas.
Danger, banana(s)!
Cool guide. Btw, they call road signs "traffic signals" there in Europe?
What do they call traffic signals (the changy light thingies) then? Maybe just traffic lights?
Semaphores
What do they call semaphores? (Manually operated single instruction flag or non electronic switching traffic signs)
Slavic languages usually call both semaphores, other languages have their own word, usually derived from a lamp, or signal device (Die Ampel in German - meaning "hanging lamp")
Edit: Realized that czech language calls the mechanical signal devices just "signal device" (signalizační zařízení) and "semaphore" (semafor) is used for light signals. Although semaphore is a french word, French call them traffic lights like in english.
WOAH TIL
I had never considered the red edge alone being no. Seems simple, but it didn't occur to me since we have slashes through all our no's.
Here in the UK we have slashes through many of the red-bordered road signs, but not all of them. People often misunderstand the ones that don't - for instance, these mean "no motor vehicles" and "no cars" respectively:
The council probably collects a lot of money in fines from people misunderstanding those two in particular
misunderstanding those two
Easy...
The one on the left is warning your about Arnold Schwarzenegger, the T-800 model Terminator. He could ambush you at anytime riding on a motorcycle he ~~stole~~ acquired from a bar along with a shotgun.
The one on the right is warning you that you're dealing with a T-1000 and it has already merged with your car, thus, invisible to you. You are already dead, the liquid metal will slide to the front passenger seat, then stab you to death.
Did I get it right? 😁
It makes more sense than it meaning only cars and bikes, or cars and bikes allowed but yeah, I probably broke some rules while I was touring :)
Sweden's former minister for equality had a particular interest in these.
What do you mean by this?
She (Paulina something..?) is rather famously (or infamously) banana-phobic. When the story went viral a handful of other public figures came out to say they had the same, somewhat unusual, phobia.
I thought they were being a racist, but instead they just made a poorly formed sentence. She has a phobia, that's the opposite of an interest!
https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-equality-minister-paulina-brandber-banana-phobia/
Just watch out for bees.
I love meta Lemmy humor so much
But what if you hit the rainbow question mark box and get a green shell instead?
Attach it to your bumper to protect from other hazards
