reminds me of some graffiti I saw in Belgrade
sometime around 1996, at a time when there were very few foreigners there. (And this was before it kicked off between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo)
Someone had scrawled - in English - on a city centre wall: "Yankees go home!". Now it was odd enough that someone felt the need to instruct the "Yankees" to go home, as there were very, very few of them in Belgrade in those days.
But stranger still, the message, although technically in English, had been written in the Cyrillic alphabet, meaning that only people who could read that alphabet could transliterate and understand it. And if you can already read the Cyrllic alphabet and are in Belgrade, chances are you understand Serbian in any case, so why did they bother to write the message in English anyway?
I'm guessing about 3 Yankees in total saw and understood the message. And they probably didn't go home.
The pointlessness of it always used to puzzle me, but made me chuckle too. Maybe that was the whole point. Strange Balkan sense of humour.
( Biffins Bridge, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 15:27, 1 reply)

I'm trying to imagine how that'd look in Cyrillic
ßàíêû ãî õ¸ìü is the best I can do...

EDIT: And even then, b3ta can't cope with the symbols...
:(
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 15:43, closed)

yeah I just typed it out
but b3ta is not cool with Cyrillic, it seems

I've just been searching google images to see if there's a photo of it anywhere, but it's unlikely since this was the dark days before digital cameras and internets had taken off.
( Biffins Bridge, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 15:55, closed)