OT-'sign' language

[oldpotatoe]

Watching stage 12, TdF, why do the stop signs say 'stop' and not whatever stop in French is? Saw the same in other Euro countries. ???

[christian]

1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs.

What, do you think EU bureaucrats in Brussels just sit on their hands?

[Fatty]

So us goofy American tourists know it's a stop.
Actually I think that's an EU standard.

[MattTuck]

the tour de france is filmed on a hollywood sound stage. they use whatever signs they can get their hands on.

[dave thompson]

the tour de france is filmed on a hollywood sound stage. they use whatever signs they can get their hands on.

Right next to the studio they filmed the moon landing in, eh? :eek:

[velotel]

Because the french adopted the word into their language long ago, long before the EU existed, probably before the EU was even a dream, or nightmare depending on your perspective. Lots of english words adopted into french. Besides, it fits on the signs more easily, instead of arrêtes vous for example.

[ceolwulf]

In Canada we are more French than the French.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/18/6u7e4ypu.jpg

[Louis]

In Canada we are more French than the French.

Some signs in Quebec don't even bother with the English.

[buldogge]

True story...When I was a teen-aged idiot (as opposed to the adult idiot I am now) I was in Montreal to see PIL play and couldn't find my way out of an underground parking garage because 'sortie' didn't register with me.

Being male and proud, I just waited for someone else to park and followed them...

-Mark in St. Louis

Some signs in Quebec don't even bother with the English.

[bikinchris]

For the same reason the roadways have all of those arrows reminding people to drive on the right side of the road. The English.

[Tom]

Built in alibi.

[Saint Vitus]

Right next to the studio they filmed the moon landing in, eh? :eek:

The Zapruder sound stage?