• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    WOAH TIL

    I had never considered the red edge alone being no. Seems simple, but it didn’t occur to me since we have slashes through all our no’s.

    • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      Here in the UK we have slashes through many of the red-bordered road signs, but not all of them. People often misunderstand the ones that don’t - for instance, these mean “no motor vehicles” and “no cars” respectively:

      The council probably collects a lot of money in fines from people misunderstanding those two in particular