Senate Votes Twice On English Language

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by marichiko

I'm trying to remember - Jag would know - but I don't think road signs are printed in 5 different languages. They use those universal symbol thingies.

I recall when those universal symbol thingies were introduced in the US; hailed as evidence that the UN-compliant jet-age nuclear-fueled metric future utopia was upon us.

Perhaps their best outcome was a National Lampoon parody a decade later, offering examples for "Village made entirely of soap, 5 km", "Do not use cheese as wheel chocks" and "While not expressly forbidden, the sounding of klaxons annoys the bears".