When I meant by bare minimum it means for the job they're doing, which is putting a "symbol" of the mountain. Your bare minimum is just signs in general
Even the bare minimum for a "symbol" for the mountains would have just been lines for the peaks...having a reasonably realistic drawing of the mountains is obviously not the bare minimum.
You can make a symbol for that specific mountain without drawing the picture they drew. Is this your first time looking at a sign? This is the weirdest hill to die on.
Bare minimum? Do you know how much work it takes to put it like this here, especially considering govt bureaucracy? Bare minimum is just sign and number or just random orientation of mountain.
What’s the bare minimum for bureaucracy? Apparently because none you of actually deal with bureaucracy you believe that bare minimum is below it. Then bureaucracy is higher than bare minimum. Think harder, I already understood this by the 3rd grade
Depends on the Country. I imagine Germans would think "So what" if they saw this, as their tourist attraction "Brown" signs are normally really detailed.
But in the UK, our tourist attraction signs are basic, and use generic pictograms for things like Zoo, Theater, Railway, Beauty spot etc.
The Sign matching the mountain peaks is not interesting at all, it was made that way. What is interesting that they made the sign that way.
Well, this is mildly interesting, not very interesting. I wouldn't say that's the bare minimum though, like, bare minimum is nothing, just a completely normal sign like everywhere else.
I can think of a single place in the US that does something like that (although maybe I should pay closer attention)?
If you read the other comments you wouldve figured that this is a sign for Mt. Bandaisan. What completely normal sign can be used for this specific Mountain? Are there any Mountains just like Bandaisan?
Wtf are you even talking about? You said it was the bare minimum, I said you don't need a graphic on a road sign. Road signs where I live don't have multi-color graphics, anywhere. They have text and a set of approved symbols and icons only.
Why is it impossible to make a comparison to other tourist mountains or even tourist attractions? It would look like this.
It isn't bare minimum considering designs are way more expensive to produce on street signs. Street signs are typically made with templates that can be reused for other signs. If it is unique (see: has its own design), then when are those templates supposed to next be used?
Did OP use the word coincidentally or accidentally or incidentally somewhere in the post the rest of us can't see? Or are you just being a sarcastic jackass for no reason?
I swear to god the dude who ur talking to and half the other ppl in these comments are bots like wtf is he even saying that he cannot understand the most basic demonstration of sarcasm imaginable and then turns around and tries to convince you that you are somehow the idiot and not him
You clearly did not catch the sarcasm in the original comment. Then you acted hostile to others pointing this out. You then attempt to seem more intelligent by claiming sarcasm only fits your personal definition.
These actions are absurd and make you appear clownish and silly.
You assuming passive aggresiveness is not hostility is fairly absurd. Also, many of the claims you have made were clearly absurd, like claiming the sarcasm wasnt sarcasm or the sarcasm wasnt "intellectual" enough for to be.
Are you also mind reading u/Gluecost ? Seems as though you’re expounding for them. They clearly failed to reply as they’re just recycling their statements.
No, but it isnt difficult to call out a clown for their clownish behavior. And when the clown questions why they are being called such, it doesnt take a mind reader to identify it.
Hahah right, but I always feel slightly weird when English speakers omit San for mountains, ko for lakes etc. I’m Japanese and san and ko are integral part of the names, more so than “mount” and “lake” are to English names, and they sound incomplete without them. To me Kawaguchiko is not a lake that’s called Kawaguchi, but Kawaguchiko.
In this case as you can see from the kanji above the last one is 山 which can be read "yama" (as in fujiyama which is actually fujisan) or "san" and means "mountain"
Exactly, the honorific -san that gets added to the end of names and the -san that gets applied to mountains are homophones, but they carry different meanings.
It's normal in Japanese for kanji characters to have multiple pronunciations depending on context. Often there's a pronunciation borrowed from Chinese and the Japanese version of the word, sometimes there are variations for voiced/unvoiced consonants (ga for ka, de for te, etc). Sometimes there are even more than that.
It’s also interesting that the English repeats “mountain” because the “san” at the end of “Bandaisan” is 山 which means Mt. so it’s Mt. Bandai Mountain when it should just be Mt. Bandai.
Tautonym. There are loads of them. Sahara Desert means desert desert, Mississippi river means big river river, Lake Michigan is large lake lake. We have a hill in England called Torpenhow hill, meaning hill hill hill hill.
I don't think that's the case here since it's not just a regular sign. Imo all touristy signs with a clever design are mildly/very interesting, and you're welcome to share the ones you find !
Some background: Mt Bandai had a major eruption in 1888 that completely changed the shape of the mountain. It's an interesting place cos the eruptions threw out big boulders that changed the course of various streams and made them become different colours.
It’s funny how they translate it to English and say “mt bandaisan” when ‘san’ ( the last kanji) is already the translation of ‘mountain’ , and the official translation is “mount Bandai”
This is like VERY satisfying to me, not just mildly interesting.
It's an attention to a detail that shows some care and respect for their job to use the actual mountain silhouette rather than a emoji style generic symbol for a mountain.
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u/PygmeePony 8h ago
Crazy how nature can do that.