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

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, March 1, 2004, 5:24
 --- 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. -- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com

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