1 April 2007

Mangal Yakmak Yasaktir

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Public Space

The district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg has an interesting policy concerning the translation of park signage:

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Is the assumption that Turks, Serbo-Croats and Greeks are less likely to observe a ban worded in German than in their mother tongues? And what does this say about the presumed language-free internationalism of graphic icons?