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If you're surprised by the fact that 20% of the signs featured here are about matters of the toilet, please don't be. I merely present a representative sample of those signs available to be snapped on Beijing's streets.

This one's a bit manic, I suspect it may have been written by someone who'd just stepped, yet again, in a Pekingese's little leavings. See what you can make of it.

The very top line I'm fairly sure has a 错别字, although I'm not 100% as I could be misreading the characters somehow.

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skylee

skylee 1913

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The typo is 愿. Should be 怨.

roddy

roddy 5842

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That's what I thought - though I would have expected to see 怪 there, not 怨。

skylee

skylee 1913

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though I would have expected to see 怪 there, not 怨

Aren't 愿 and 怨 homophones, thus the typo? That's what I thought.

roddy

roddy 5842

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Yep, but I've never heard 别怨我不客气, only 别怪我不客气, so I wasn't sure if I was missing something somehow.

jbradfor

jbradfor 681

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But this is handwritten, right? Is using a homophone a common error in handwritten Chinese? I always assumed it would be more common in a phonetic (e.g. pinyin) based computer IME, but don't really have any evidence to back me up.

roddy

roddy 5842

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Not sure if you'd call it common, but it certainly happens - you don't, for example, know which character the yuàn you use in speech is. See also the 务/勿 mix up some time back.

semantic nuance

semantic nuance 119

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could be 別(埋)怨我不客氣.

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