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International sign language

We hope our coverage of the world’s road signs is encouraging you to drive safely. Martin Williams at Powys City Council writes with more evidence of the very useful road sign policies from India.
In Assam, he spotted: ‘Horn do’, ‘No whisky no risky’, ‘No race no hell’, ‘For safe arriving, no liquor’ and ‘When driving if married, divorce speed’.
His favourite, and we think ours, is 16,000 feet up in the mountains of Kashmir on the way to the holy site of Amarnath.
At the highest point of the Viper Path, oxygen-starved pilgrims come across a sign that simply says: ‘Relax’.

December 13, 2006 in backbytes | Permalink

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Here in Wales we have signs in two languages at once. My favourite is "Slow Down" accompanied by "Arafwch nawr". Welsh being a very precise language, "arafwch" - a command to go slowly - is plural. Nice to know they remembered the back seat driver!

Posted by :Howard Jackson | December 15, 2006 9:35 PM

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