Re: CHAT When is a bath not a bath? (Re: Hymn to IKEA etc)

 --- Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> wrote: >
Matthew Kehrt wrote:
>
> > At least in the United States, these symbols are
> standardized, and were
> > designed as part of a set by the American
> Institute of Graphic Arts
> > and the United States Department of
> Transportation.  They are viewable
> > here:
> http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?CategoryID=38 .
> > -M
>
> Well, this are the signs for toilets you get in most
> big public places (like
> shopping centers) in Colombia.
>
> The other symbols are not that common (most of them,
> exceptions like the
> Swiss cross).
Some of them are odd... the symbol for nursery is used
for baby change rooms here, but I suspect that
reflects a difference of names (nurseries here are
places where you buy plants, which doesn't have all
that much to do w/ babies ;), or the no-signs are
backwards. Information, signficantly, is generally a
slightly odd-shaped bold blue (lowercase) i (or blue
spot with white i). I've never seen things for
barbers/hairdressers etc., nor ticketpurchase, car
rental, ground transport, and a number of others. The
'exit' sign would certainly have baffled me, the only
standardised exit signs I know of are lit-up green
signs with EXIT in a white sans-serif font.

Ah well, such is life.

--
Tristan.

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