The problems of bilingual road signs: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated"

By On November 1, 2008 · 1 Comment

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.

Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated“.

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One Response to The problems of bilingual road signs: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated"

  1. Con says:
    November 1, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    A similar case, in which a Chinese restaurant has a giant sign in English saying “Translate Server Error”:

    http://dearjanesample.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/reasons-why-you-should-use-a-real-translator/

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