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This is my first blog. 希望每日也有一些事可記錄下來,否則那日就好像是白過。

Thursday, March 22, 2007

paraphernalia?!

設於公眾地方的告示牌用字應力求簡潔易明,讓市民一看便懂,但康樂及文化事務署卻捨易取難,在元朗的賽馬會廣場公園貼出多個「嚴禁擺放雜物」告示牌,英文寫法是「No paraphernalia 」這艱深英語,此事連電視節目也拿出來當笑話!

根據字典所說:

paraphernalia
You can refer to a large number of objects that someone has with them or that are connected with a particular activity as paraphernalia.

Example:
We sell pots, gloves, seeds and other gardening paraphernalia.
Bags of cocaine and all sorts of drug paraphernalia were seized at the airport.

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