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Have you ever driven down a road and saw a sign that said something totally innocent but you misread it as something else? I hapens to me whenver I see a sign for the "Church of Latter Day Saints". For some reason when I see "Chuch of LDS" I misread it as "Church of LSD". :(

Any other sign misreadings?

when i was on vaction in Virginia i saw the "Welcome to Virginia" sign and i seriously though for a second it said "Welcome to..............uhhh lower Lady Parts"

I misread things a lot, but I don't remember any funny ones right now.

I have noticed unintended meanings in things a lot, but it's probably because when I am tired my mind is in the gutter.

when i was on vaction in Virginia i saw the "Welcome to Virginia" sign and i seriously though for a second it said "Welcome to..............uhhh lower Lady Parts"

:p

I live just over the VA/NC line, and according to all the Virginians who keep moving down here, your interpretation (?) would robably be correct. :p

Though if the idiot Virginians keep moving to my town, then my town will be a little exclave of Virginia rather than a part of North Carolina.... :mad:

These (http://www.ghspaulding.com/jokes&such.htm) don't need to be misread.

oh I remember one, I read "prosecutors will be violated" instead of "violators will be prosecuted"

I was pretty tired.

oh I remember one, I read "prosecutors will be violated" instead of "violators will be prosecuted"

I was pretty tired.

That made me LOL. :D

http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_11/11_20.gif http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_11/11_21.gif

I tend to confuse these two. Do you know what they stand for?

An big sign that said "Prepare to meet they God" posted on the approach to a corner on a motorbike racing circuit.

I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but that could easily be misinterpreted...

These (http://www.ghspaulding.com/jokes&such.htm) don't need to be misread.

Some of those have to have been photoshopped...

oh I remember one, I read "prosecutors will be violated" instead of "violators will be prosecuted"

I was pretty tired.

LMAO! XD

These (http://www.ghspaulding.com/jokes&such.htm) don't need to be misread.

Those pwn my "Church of LSD" any day. :D

http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_11/11_20.gif http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_11/11_21.gif

I tend to confuse these two. Do you know what they stand for?

...nope. No idea whatsoever.

As for misreading signs...I actually don't, usually. If anything, I tend to mentally correct errors in my head whenever I read something, so if, say, a word is missing on a sign it'll take me a while to notice because my mind'll automatically fill in the blank with the expected word.

...nope. No idea whatsoever.

They're road signs, so if you have a driver's licence, you should know.

They're road signs, so if you have a driver's licence, you should know.

Yeah, foreign road signs were right at the top of the list of things to learn when I was doing my driving test.

Someone was selling seafood out of the back of their truck on the side of the road. I read "We Have Fresh Scallops" as "We Have Fresh Scalps."

They're road signs, so if you have a driver's licence, you should know.

I'm in Driver's Ed and I hav no effing clue what they mean.

Yeah, foreign road signs were right at the top of the list of things to learn when I was doing my driving test.

They should have been, since roads don't precisely stop at your country's border, especially with your country being in the EU.

The one with five dots tells you that people with diminished vision tend to frequent the area and can be seen around schools for the blind, for instance. The one with three dots is the same but for people with diminished hearing. Thus pretty important signs.

They're road signs, so if you have a driver's licence, you should know.

I figured they were road signs, given the current topic of discussion, but in the U.S., we only learn about our own road signs before getting a driver's license, not roadsigns of other nations. Perhaps Sweden does it differently, most probably because you share many borders with other nations.

Though thanks to your spoilers I now know what they mean. I don't see how you came up with those symbols for those meanings, but meh, they mean what they mean.

I figured they were road signs, given the current topic of discussion, but in the U.S., we only learn about our own road signs before getting a driver's license, not roadsigns of other nations. Perhaps Sweden does it differently, most probably because you share many borders with other nations.

We only share two borders and the last time I checked that was the same amount as the US shares.

Though thanks to your spoilers I now know what they mean. I don't see how you came up with those symbols for those meanings, but meh, they mean what they mean.

"Blind" contains five letters, hence five dots. "Döv" contains three letters, hence three dots. That's probably not the reason the signs look the way they do, but that's the easiest way to remember what they mean.

They should have been, since roads don't precisely stop at your country's border,

In the UK they generally do. Except for the border with the Republic, but they have more or less the same road signs as we do.

especially with your country being in the EU.

And if I was going to drive in another country I would read up on road signs there. But I haven't been to Sweden, so I don't know the signs there.

The one with five dots tells you that people with diminished vision tend to frequent the area and can be seen around schools for the blind, for instance. The one with three dots is the same but for people with diminished hearing. Thus pretty important signs.[/QUOTE]

We don't have signs that mean that, but we do have one with a picture of older people crossing, I suppose it has a similar general meaning.

the three dots also mean something like "anti-police" IIRC

We only share two borders and the last time I checked that was the same amount as the US shares.



"Blind" contains five letters, hence five dots. "Döv" contains three letters, hence three dots. That's probably not the reason the signs look the way they do, but that's the easiest way to remember what they mean.

...oh, wait, that's right. My mistake. Been a wee bit since I looked at a map Sweden.

And that works, I suppose. I doubt I'll forget what those signs mean in any case, though I don't know if I'll ever be driving in Sweden. Maybe Canada, but that's about it.

I just thought this news link on Yahoo! said "resign" instead of "reign":

Gandolfini reigns at New Orleans fest (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_re_us/mardi_gras)

We only share two borders and the last time I checked that was the same amount as the US shares.

Actually, Mexican and Canadian road signs are almost identical to the ones used in the US. The few that aren't are pretty easy to figure out by context and design.

They should have been, since roads don't precisely stop at your country's border, especially with your country being in the EU.

The one with five dots tells you that people with diminished vision tend to frequent the area and can be seen around schools for the blind, for instance. The one with three dots is the same but for people with diminished hearing. Thus pretty important signs.

in the UK we have signs that say "school for the blind" and "school for the deaf" instead, often associated with a "SLOW" sign.

There was a sign in Oakland that used to drive me nuts.

It was a plain white sign that stuck out in the middle of everything and said, "Stop Casting Porosity" I didn't know I was casting anything, much less porosity...

Turns out I was putting the emphasis wrong...it's just a metal casting process that doesn't have pores.

This one's awful, but only because I didn't parse it correctly:

"Helping torture victims at home."

Obviously, "torture victims" is supposed to be one subject. But that's not how I read it at first. I'm a bad, bad person.

Oh, and, http://www.engrish.com

This one's awful, but only because I didn't parse it correctly:

"Helping torture victims at home."

Obviously, "torture victims" is supposed to be one subject. But that's not how I read it at first. I'm a bad, bad person.

Oh, and, http://www.engrish.com

There was a church sign once, that said something like "don't let sin drag you down, let the church help"

I laughed so hard.

I don't remember now, if I really saw it or if it was one of those emails though.

When I was younger, we lived near a Karate dojo, and one day, when we were passing it, I asked, "Mommy, what are Marital Arts?"

I have the bad habit of reading things dyslexically (sp?), and so any thing I read can be humorous to me.

They should have been, since roads don't precisely stop at your country's border, especially with your country being in the EU.Oh please, as if Swedish driver's ed makes you learn foreign road signs.

Misread signs?

NEVAR! What are you implying anyway? Hmm?

>.>

These (http://www.ghspaulding.com/jokes&such.htm) don't need to be misread.

In a town nearby, there's a Wang's Chinese place. Also in...I think it's NJ, there's a popular mexican restaraunt called "Chi Chi's". For those of you unskilled in the Spanish language (Such as myself) it translates as "titties".

Also, here's a funny ad rotation for you:

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Have you ever driven down a road and saw a sign that said something totally innocent but you misread it as something else? I hapens to me whenver I see a sign for the "Church of Latter Day Saints". For some reason when I see "Chuch of LDS" I misread it as "Church of LSD". :(

Any other sign misreadings?http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7359/saufbusnr8.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=saufbusnr8.jpg)
This innocent little sign reads "Except for bus(ses)" in its original language, French.

In German however... it denotes a bus for heavy drinking of alcoholic beverages. :D

Oh please, as if Swedish driver's ed makes you learn foreign road signs.

As you can see (http://faktabanken.nu/trafik/trafik.htm), Swedish road signs aren't all that different from those used in other parts of Europe, for instance Germany. The book I used to study for my traffic theory exam contained examples of how European signs differed (mostly slightly) and what they meant.

As you can see (http://faktabanken.nu/trafik/trafik.htm), Swedish road signs aren't all that different from those used in other parts of Europe, for instance Germany. They're all in yellow. How irritating on the eyes.

The book I used to study for my traffic theory exam contained examples of how European signs differed (mostly slightly) and what they meant.Oh, examples, no doubt about that. But remind me again why you had to be a bitch about a couple of obscure signs that were, if I had to hazard a guess, not included even in your examples?

They're all in yellow. How irritating on the eyes.

Of course they're yellow - they're supposed to grab your attention. That's why they work - that's why our "Vision Zero" is subject to emulation by several countries, among them Germany. Unfortunately, your signs have remained ugly.

Oh, examples, no doubt about that. But remind me again why you had to be a bitch about a couple of obscure signs that were, if I had to hazard a guess, not included even in your examples?

Oh, but they were included as they had no counterpart similar enough to the original. I had to "bitch" to expose yet another failing of foreign "education".