Language Barrier: March 2008 Archives

Alien teaching aliens how to use the toilet properly at Space World.

In Japan, foreigners are simply known as aliens. Long term stay aliens have Alien cards too!
Immigration officer at the airport : Alien Card prease...

This toilet sign has no Japanese; and the Chinese instructions come first. Which means Japs have a hard time with the way how Chinese people use toilets. If you don't read the Chinese version, you will have no idea what this sign is trying to say...

Canto reads (not accurate pinyin) : Sai yoong guo dik wai sang zhi, ho zhik (X) yup ma thung chung zhau. (LOL!! Ma thung...) Dai, siew bin hau cheng chung sui.
Which means; Please flush away used toilet tissues. (Chinamen must've left tissue stained with poop on the floor)
Please flush the toilet, regardless of big or small 'investment'.

In case it runs through your mind... yes, I have nothing better to do in the toilet besides shishi-ing...

Kumamoto Castle's public toilet

So... uh... poop?

I don't understand Korean but the Chinese version is even more detailed than Jap and Eng.