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Lu -



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provides a better translation for the English "to line 5"

This crossed my mind too, but I am convinced that for a subway sign in Beijing, the original
language would be Chinese not English, so if there is going to be any translation, it's going to
be from Chinese, not to it.
Also, if it's grammatically incorrect in the language it's translated to, it's not a better
translation.



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文言訓開班 -

Well, regarding this I'm keeping in mind two things. The first is that I always hear Chinese refer
to Chinese as a 感语 rather than a 法语, and the second is that the Beijing Olympics are
gearing up. It may be that the Chinese was changed to be more fitting to the English in lieu of
the Olympics.










Quest -



Quote:

provides a better translation for the English "to line 5"

No, 往5号线 would be a better translation for "to line 5". 去往5号线 sounds annoyingly
redundant and unsophisticated.










skylee -

yes redundant is a good description.










yonglin -

Hmm... maybe they actually need the semantic nuance entailed in 去.

If you have two subway lines connecting at a station, then in Beijing, it must be the case that
there are two different walking routes connecting the two, each of them one-way only. (Actually, I
bet that one is just down the stairs and the other one is about 500 meters around the entire
block.)

Now, of course 往 does actually entail one-way direction in itself, but it is - in my opinion -
not nearly half as strong as 去往 if you want to command people to keep on the right track!












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