Silly Little Country

Small Ambiguities

... with a potential to be unsettling.

As I was on the fourth floor, my initial reading of this sign disturbed me.


Of course it is in the end clear that they mean do not get on the elevator when the hotel is on fire, not that the elevator might cause one.

(Although with the ceilings all falling because of the air conditioning ...)

Labels: ambiguity, hotels, translation

posted by Alan Adamson @ 4:35 PM