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- medium: The sign is printed on a metal sign right off the side of the road.
- domain: The context of the sign is that there is an ahupua’a in Kāne’ohe.
- audience: The sign is intended for people who are driving by the sign. It is mainly intended for nonlocals and tourists.
- function: The sign is informing people who are not familiar with the island that an ahupua’a is nearby the area that the sign is located.
- language: The language that is dominant on this sign is Hawaiian.
The word ahupua’a is a Hawaiian term for a large traditional socioeconomic, geologic, and climatic subdivision of land.
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Honolulu
N.L, Howzit is pidgin for how is it
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Broomfield
Spanish and English
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Everett
Here's another Everett sign expecting most everyone reading it to understand English. I can't help but imagine if someone is non-English speaking how they would know what to and not to stay away from.
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Bellevue
Ethnic grocery stores play an important role to engage immigrant communities. For example, at the entry, S-mart has a station for the local newspapers in Chinese language for free, which allows readers to digest the news without language barriers.
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Austin
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Honokaa
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Tilton
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Tucson
Maya Sarraillon
El edificio viejo esta el sur de Tucson
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Chapel Hill
PTA
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Waipahu
This is a shirt that says so urusai. There is also the meaning of urusai below in English which say irritating. Urusai is a Japanese word that also means annoying or noisy there is also Japanese characters. This Symbolic-synthetic. R.N.
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New York
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Lorain
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Haleiwa
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Honolulu
SK
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Aiea
EL-S Domain: Pearlridge Center downtown
This is to help difference the diffferent sides of the mall, one is the plantation while to other isn’t.
Audience: Customers that are walking in, and wanting to go to the other part of the mall.
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San Francisco
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Boulder
Downtown Bus Station (photo by Ula A)
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Broomfield
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Everett
Without any context, something like this would almost be a way to bring in people who want to prolong the efforts that Christopher Columbus set, which communicates how many people in Everett would be interested in coming to something like that.
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