Quiz question.
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Quiz question. You're in Brussels, waiting for either metro line 2 or metro line 6 to take you to Simonis station.
The board shows "2 SIMONIS 6"
I'm wondering how intuitive this is, so a poll:
Does "2 SIMONIS 6" mean:
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Quiz question. You're in Brussels, waiting for either metro line 2 or metro line 6 to take you to Simonis station.
The board shows "2 SIMONIS 6"
I'm wondering how intuitive this is, so a poll:
Does "2 SIMONIS 6" mean:
"Second book of Simonis, Chapter 6", is excluded as an option for being contextually implausible.
(I continue to maintain that STIB/MIVB's signage department has as its motto "If You Know, You Know")
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Quiz question. You're in Brussels, waiting for either metro line 2 or metro line 6 to take you to Simonis station.
The board shows "2 SIMONIS 6"
I'm wondering how intuitive this is, so a poll:
Does "2 SIMONIS 6" mean:
@pseudomonas Errrr. Am I allowed to have context in the form of other similar signs appearing at around the same time?
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@pseudomonas Errrr. Am I allowed to have context in the form of other similar signs appearing at around the same time?
@cjwatson Well, if you wait for a minute then one of the numbers will change and one won't.
More seriously, another caption will be shown next to it with an "X Destination Y" rubric too. It's not a given that the leftmost one will leave first.
(if you know what the available lines are, and only one of X and Y corresponds to one of those available lines, then you can infer which way round it works)
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@cjwatson Well, if you wait for a minute then one of the numbers will change and one won't.
More seriously, another caption will be shown next to it with an "X Destination Y" rubric too. It's not a given that the leftmost one will leave first.
(if you know what the available lines are, and only one of X and Y corresponds to one of those available lines, then you can infer which way round it works)
@pseudomonas I'm not sure the first point is non-serious: it might very well be what I'd resort to if faced with this!
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@pseudomonas I'm not sure the first point is non-serious: it might very well be what I'd resort to if faced with this!
@cjwatson To be fair there's more of a gap between the destination and the number on one side than the other, which I think makes it a fair bit clearer. But not as clear as I'd like.
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Quiz question. You're in Brussels, waiting for either metro line 2 or metro line 6 to take you to Simonis station.
The board shows "2 SIMONIS 6"
I'm wondering how intuitive this is, so a poll:
Does "2 SIMONIS 6" mean:
@pseudomonas So was everyone right, or are we all going to miss our train?
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@pseudomonas So was everyone right, or are we all going to miss our train?
@sparrowsion yes, people were right.
