A Tip on Speaking/Reading French by mydreamquest
Musée d'OrsayI nearly dislocated my shoulder when I tried to push a door open which had the sign "tirez" but didn't realize that it means "pull."When you approach a door, if is says "poussez" that means "push" and that's pretty obvious.
If it says "Tirez", it means "pull." How can you remember this? Well "tirez" sort of sounds like "tear" as in: "to tear apart." So when you tear things, you "pull things apart."
Remember: Tirez=Pull
This picture was taken in front of Pho 128, a Vietnamese Noodle house in Paris'es chinatown near the Porte de Choisy metro station (on the pink, 7 Line).
