My humans sent me a postcard from a ferry; small cabin with a view of endless water. Water every way you look. I know this one.... they can have that to themselves.
F also sent me another photo because I guess she knew it would
give me a wry cause for musing.
Their ferry is Italian flagged, plying its trade between Italy
and Greece. Its announcements are in Greek, English, German and Italian. Most of its signage is Italian and English.
However it seems that only literate English language people
fall on stairs.
Anyone who can't read, or who doesn't comprehend written English, is focussing their attention on negotiating the stairs; stairs built into a moving platform that wobbles a bit, but educated English language people clearly don't understand what stairs are and need warnings.
The hand sanitizer notices are in big Italian and small English.
The rubbish bins are labelled in English. The escape instructions are multilingual.
So it seems they are concerned that English people alone don't
understand stairs and rubbish bins.
OR, maybe this is a sinister plot to distract literate English-reading
people into reading stuff when they should be focused on negotiating stairs, causing
them to fall to their deaths (having first sorted their rubbish).
Hari Om
ReplyDelete... I cannot help but think Tigger dear that you are reading too much into it... Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
No doubt the humans are greatly enjoying themselves and having an nice time away, time for Tigger to get spoilt.
ReplyDeleteTis a mystery to be sure lol
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your trip
They obviously don't have a very high opinion of The English!
ReplyDeleteMr B (being English) thinks it is for our English speaking litigous cousins from across 'the Pond'.
DeleteOMC! OMD! your musing is amazing and making me laugh. I do think you are right and the only ones who need the warnings are AMERICAN English speaking because over here there is a sign or four every where, like watch for gators, don't drink the pond water, beware of standing on the cliff, things that are obvious MUST be spelled out to Americans.. there are are few of us, like ME that know this stuff but the majority need to be told and told. I am with you Tigger, no tiny cabins on things that float..
ReplyDeleteanother thing is, americans do not pay any attention to signs. the signs are there to keep people who get hurt from suing the county/city. at Disney there were signs posted beware of Gators, do not wade in the lake, they had a gator get a 2 year old that was holding on to daddys hand. I am American but I am one of a few who have common sense, especailly the youger seem to think signs do not mean for them. my hubby had to save people from rip tides 3 times at the beach. we stopped going there because even though the signs said there were rip tides, familes let the kids play, once the woman was screaming standing in the surf right by the sign that said no swimming and the three kids were on a float being carried out to sea. bob had to swim to bring them in.
DeleteI often wonder why STOP signs are so ubiquitous in Europe and seldom bilingual.
ReplyDeleteVery nice cabin for a ferry too.
Perhaps the boat was built in England Tigger?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, it might be that. Are there any England shipyards building non-military vessels bigger than a fishing boat?
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