people elsewhere in the world look at their exit signs written in kanji/hiragana/hanja/greek/cyrillic/etc and realized that there may be people out there who didn't understand these writing systems. so rather than let people who didn't know die in a fire, they tried to come up with a universally recognizable sign for an exit.
people in america (judging by the slate comments) don't recognize that there may be a problem, or if they do realize that there may be a problem think that other people should just adapt to the existing sign. in either case, the general attitude is "you should understand our way of doing things or you could DIAF".
what is it about australia that it seems like every other native animal there can either poison, dismember or at the very least freak you out to another continent?
PS. the accent is very thick; what did the little girl say to her dad?
Count me among the uninterested. I just know about it because media decides to cram it down my throat.
With the advent of 24/7 news reporting, news networks found out something alarming: there actually isn't enough news to report on. So events that would have been relegated to the trivia section a decade or so ago are now Top Stories with Breaking News Flashes and In Depth Coverage and Detailed Analysis.
people elsewhere in the world look at their exit signs written in kanji/hiragana/hanja/greek/cyrillic/etc and realized that there may be people out there who didn't understand these writing systems. so rather than let people who didn't know die in a fire, they tried to come up with a universally recognizable sign for an exit.
people in america (judging by the slate comments) don't recognize that there may be a problem, or if they do realize that there may be a problem think that other people should just adapt to the existing sign. in either case, the general attitude is "you should understand our way of doing things or you could DIAF".
sad.
PS. the accent is very thick; what did the little girl say to her dad?
With the advent of 24/7 news reporting, news networks found out something alarming: there actually isn't enough news to report on. So events that would have been relegated to the trivia section a decade or so ago are now Top Stories with Breaking News Flashes and In Depth Coverage and Detailed Analysis.
Sheesh.
bet the mark that you can drop a raw egg over a hard floor (with nothing to catch it) six feet without it breaking.
the twist: drop the egg at seven feet