Monday 14 May 2018

We Often See Messages Or Menus Out Here,

that have somewhat missed the point,


that is, a translation that is computer generated that has not been read by a native speaker, well it happens in the UK as well, in Swansea, a town in coastal Wales, all the road signs are posted in both English and Welsh, so when town officials wanted to add a sign dissuading trucks from going down a certain road, they emailed their local translator to get the Welsh version of the sign and received a instantaneous reply, not knowing Welsh, they assumed the words made sense and posted them straight on the sign, 

 as the reply was instant, they should perhaps of realised the message which they thought was a translation actually read, "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated" an out of office auto-reply, and at no point did anyone think to show it to an actual Welsh person, so here is the printed sign on display, well at least it gave the locals a laugh at the expense of the non-Welsh speaking council!


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