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Re: R44 'SS' Culver Shuttle rollsign. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Feb 23 03:58:43 2020, in response to Re: R44 'SS' Culver Shuttle rollsign., posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Sun Feb 23 03:21:13 2020. Generally people who travel to North America as tourists have more money and higher levels of education. This means they probably learned the Roman alphabet in school. Peasants who come here should learn the alphabet and if needing to use the subway helps them do so, then good.There is one advantage to using letters. If a person doesn’t know the proper English name for a letter, it’s likely that their own language’s name for that letter is similar enough that when spoken is completely understandable. So when a Spanish speakers asks for the “beh” train, you know they mean B (Spanish is a bad example with the letter J, but whatever). Numbers though can be completely different. How do you show 12 on your |
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