Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
 > "Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
 > news:u0pttvofqssd7fqv5anv3qnhvq4dq70g83@4ax.com...
 >
 >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:06:50 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
 >> <ginstrom@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
 >>
 >>
 >>> Assuming he meant expressway, there are some places where
 >>> suddenly you're
 >>
 > on
 >
 >>> that elevated thingy with no escape, then hit the toll gate a few
 >>> km
 >>
 > later.
 >
 >> Although road signage in Japan can be screwy, I have never
 >> encountered a location like that where it wasn't clearly indicated
 >> that the road was a toll road *before* you lose the chance to avoid
 >> it.
 >
 >
 > Hey, nobody said anything about signs. Sure, there are those green
 > signs at the two places I know of.
 >
 > But they're in yingyong anyway.
 >
It wasn't all Yingyong (note the caps; I think that's a proper
noun.)There was english on the sign. Some numbers. Does that count as
English?

John W.