Yoko Ono continues to add languages to her Flickr set of printable "War Is Over" posters -- with new versions running from Croation and Burmese to semaphore, nautical flags and... Klingon. Yoko and her staff have created 60 versions so far, but much more is to come.
We're also looking out for Amharic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Cantonese/Yue, Cebuano, Fula/Fulfulde, Gan, Georgian, Gujarati, Hakka, Hausa, Igbo, Inukitut, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Madurese, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Min, Nepali, Oriya, Oromo, Punjabi, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Sunda, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wu, Xiang, Yoruba & Zhuang and many others.For the record, "War is Over" in Klingon is: "VES 'OH GHOSTA.'"
We were very happy to receive Klingon and Lojban and welcome more esoteric submissions.
Strangely, in ASL you would have two or maybe three signs for "war is over." Anyone that uses ASL wouldn't spell out the letters W-A-R-I-S-O-V-E-R to say that.
ReplyDeleteYou're right! That's my error. The Flickr page says American Handsign (there's a British one, too). My mistake.
ReplyDeleteI guess I wasn't clear -- you're not at fault here. I'm just saying someone that uses ASL, aka American Handsign, would "say" the words "War Is Over" instead of spelling out the letters.
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