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May 29th 2009
Published: May 29th 2009
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Just round the corner is some very useful advice for those living in high rise flats.


I have some sympathy for the authorities who put up the second example. A literal transaltion is "Circular public open space"; not very snappy and I know of lots of squares in the UK that are not geometric squares. How to put it in English? Well, not that way.


And then there's the utterly incomprensible.



Philip



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Don't do this at home
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29th May 2009

Haha love these. I guess if anyone was going to square the circle it would be those cunning Chinese :)

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