Checksum: 06614
Path: utzoo!utgpu!gbs
From: gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gideon Sheps)
Date: Wed, 6-Sep-89 22:20:38 EDT
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: STOP Signs
Distribution: can



STOP, in a red octagon, is indeed universal - this is not news to anyone
in Quebec (although the bit about Japan was news to me) - indeed, that
the word stop is in fact the correct French word for the sign is also
not news. This was pointed out by many at the time they started adding
Arret to the signs. However, just because the Dutch STOP, and the French,
Belgians, Luxembourgers STOP, indeed the Morrocans and Japanese STOP
doesn't mean that Quebec must STOP - the issue never was one of correctness
but one of image and perception - remember that the stop sign is put
up by the governament, and was therefor subject to alteraton long before
they had the nerve to re-enact the Nurenburg laws.

-- 
Gideon Sheps
I am not a number ...                             ...I am a free variable !
                                                                     ///
UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!utgpu!gbs             \\\///
BITNET: gbs@utorgpu INTERNET:  gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca           \\\/