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Today is Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:22 pm (U.S. central time).

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"out of office" sign (welsh translation eror)

Remember the restaurant known in English as Translate Server Error? Well, be thankful the directions for finding it were not in Welsh.

According to the BBC, road signs in Wales are now supposed to be bilingual, in both English and Welsh. The signmakers dutifully sent the English from the above sign to a translation service. Unfortunately, the Welsh that arrived in the return e-mail says “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”

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Posted: January 13th, 2009 under translation.
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Comment from jenn
Time: January 15, 2009, 9:42 am

i had no idea welsh was so intense

Comment from Robin S.
Time: January 19, 2009, 1:43 pm

My husband is Welsh – so I see these signs a couple of times a year. I can actually pronounce some things correctly now, such as their gutteral double L, and I know, for instance, how to pronounce ‘welcome to Wales’ in Welsh.

But that’s just about it.

Comment from xensen
Time: January 19, 2009, 2:58 pm

Welsh is a complete mystery to me — what an inscrutable language!

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