Auto Reply: I am not in the office at the moment…
Written on 31st October 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
The BBC reports on this hilarious road sign. As you can see the English is clear enough but the Welsh at the bottom reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the out of office reply was what they needed.
So that is what they printed on the sign. Apparently it happens so often that a local newspaper has a special section showing all the Welsh/English translation screw ups.
This one is just amazing…
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By David Petherick on Oct 31, 2008
There are a few more examples of this kind of thing at http://russian-com.co.uk/fun/badtrans.html
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By David Petherick on Oct 31, 2008
More translation hilarity at http://russian-com.co.uk/fun/badtrans.html
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By Edo van Royen on Nov 1, 2008
Even more fun is restaurant “Translate server error” in China: http://www.unplggd.com/uimages.....rerror.jpg
Gotta love these errors, where would the world be without them!
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