Lost in Translation


All road signs in Wales must have text in both English and Welsh. Sometimes they don't exactly agree. Swansea Council emailed a request for a Welsh translation for this sign. The reply came back in Welsh, and was duly printed. The problem is that the Welsh version says (in English),
"I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".

The sign has been removed, but quite a few photographs were already taken and sent to the Welsh language magazine Golwg, which has a series of such unfortunate translations. Link -via Digg

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I’m confused. Why would a Welsh translation service send out messages in only Welsh? Surely most of the messages they get sent are in English or another language, therefore indicating that the sender doesn’t know Welsh!
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I like the idea of a 'no entry' sign with a giant arrow on it. If i was making a sign for people not to enter a place, the last thing i would do is have a giant arrow pointing the way.
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