JAPANESE LOVE OF ENGLISH SIGNS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 5

JAPANESE LOVE OF ENGLISH SIGNS

The Japanese love putting up English signs, and they Hood the rooms at the hotels with English cards. And such English! They have no imperative mood, and they generally express an idea negatively which vve express

positively. One day a traveller said to the waiter: “Kishi, the rolls are cold."’ “Yes,” he said, “a good deal of not cooling the cakes is good.” A conspicuous notice at a leading hotel reads: ‘‘On the dining-time nobody shall be enter to the dining and drawing room without the guests allow” One of the articles in the municipal laws of Sa-ikio reads:—“Any dealer

shall be honestly hjf his trade. - Of coui ie, he shall tl! «»«&■> «l> the safe package.” i Tnkio dentist’s circular reads:—“Our U<oth is an importunt organ for human life and countenance, as v.e know: therefore when it is attacked by injury artificial tooth is useful, f am engaged in the dentistry and I will make for your purpose.”