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The same subway sign means two different things in New York and Madrid
- mahmud 16y agoIn China "subway" doesn't mean train, tramps, or even a sandwitch. It just means an underground pathway to cross the street for pedestrians. You can't imagine how painful it is in the middle of summer, when you're a fat ass foreigner clinching to the one phrase you understand in all the billboards and street signs. In one night, I must have spent 45 minutes running in underground tunnels, exploring pathways in 100 degree heat and poping up on opposite sites of the same damn intersection without finding a single train :-( Very expensive lesson.
- scritic 16y agoActually that's what "subway" means in India too. Or at least, that's the word we use to describe the underground road-crossings in Mumbai.