Nov 1, 2008

E-mail error ends up on road sign

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”. So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.

Fantastic. Also: “In [2006], a sign for pedestrians in Cardiff reading ‘Look Right’ in English read ‘Look Left’ in Welsh.”

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