錯字

[skylee]

I was in Taipei last month and when I bought my MRT tickets I found that there was a very common mistake in the display of the ticket vending machine. I then wrote an email to the MRT about this, but I never got a reply. I guess, unlike in HK where public companies usually have performance pledge which covers a timeframe for reply to letters, the MRT is not used to replying to such letters. But considering the education level of Taiwan people and how obvious the mistake is, I guess I wasn't the first one who told the MRT about it.

Anyway, here are a photo of the mistake and the email I wrote -

你好。我是香港來的遊客，這幾天常常乘捷運。我買的是單程票，發覺你們的售票機用錯字了：應該是“請稍候”，你們卻寫了“請稍後”。我從來沒想過在台北也會看到這樣的白字，請你們盡快改過來吧，不然有點丟臉，也會教壞小孩子喔。

李小姐

If anyone in Taipei knows if it has been corrected, please let me know.

[rootfool]

Last year I went to guangdong province and found that many barbershop used this word:美容美發.And a picture which I saw in a forum showed that a supermarket translate "一次性用品" to "one sex item".

真是沒有最錯，只有更錯啊~

[jakiestar]

there's no mistake !

example: 请稍后再拨 means: please dial later,

so 稍后(後): means: later

请稍候一下 means: please wait a moment

so 稍候 means :wait a moment

so we can also use 请稍后 and 请稍候

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there's no mistake too !

美容美發: “發” means:hair

一次性用品：NOT means "one sex item"

"one sex item" is :一次性性用品.

一次性: means: can only use once!.

[gougou]

there's no mistake !

example: 请稍后再拨 means: please dial later,

so 稍后(後): means: later

请稍候一下 means: please wait a moment

so 稍候 means :wait a moment

So can you use 请稍后 on its own? What does it mean then? “Please later"? Doesn't there need to be a verb, like 拨 in the example you gave?

[rootfool]

So can you use 请稍后 on its own? What does it mean then? “Please later"? Doesn't there need to be a verb, like 拨 in the example you gave?

agree with gougou.I think a verb need to be added after 稍后.

稍后 shāohòu [later on]∶在时间上稍微偏后的

稍候 稍微等候，相当于等一会和稍等同义。

所以两词，前者强调客观时间上的先后性，后者强调动作——等待，稍同作程度副词，其修饰作用。

from here:

http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/796768.html

there's no mistake too !

美容美發: “發” means:hair

一次性用品：NOT means "one sex item"

see the dictionary here:http://www.zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE5Zdic8FZdic91.htm

髮 fà〈名〉

(1) 头发,人头上的毛 [hair]

發 and 髪 use the same character 发 in simplified.But only 髪 can means hair in tranditional.

[xiaocai]

there's no mistake !

example: 请稍后再拨 means: please dial later,

so 稍后(後): means: later

请稍候一下 means: please wait a moment

so 稍候 means :wait a moment

so we can also use 请稍后 and 请稍候

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there's no mistake too !

美容美發: “發” means:hair

一次性用品：NOT means "one sex item"

"one sex item" is :一次性性用品.

一次性: means: can only use once!.

I know you are not serious, are you?

Hey, but its not funny at all.

[Mugi]

You should have told them to fix their English at the same time!

[trien27]

候: This word is often used in Classical or ancient Chinese? 後 came later to replace it?

發 doesn't mean hair. It's converted back to the Traditional Chinese using the wrong character, which uses the same character as hair in Simplified Chinese. Try asking Yun-Fat Chow if he has "soft hair"?

[madizi]

I think skylee is right. The machine didn't inform her to get a ticket later (as jakiestar suggested), but to wait a little bit.

As for haircut, 发 is used for haircut in simplified characters, but in traditional characters it is 髪 and not 發. In this point, jakiestar was right.