Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Kross-Kultural Konfusion
Welch is a Celtic language that is not spoken by the English and mastered only by a minority of Welshmen. However all public signs in Wales need to be bilingual: English and Welsh.
Sign makers wondered how a certain traffic sign should appear in the Welsh language. They sent an email to the translator’s office asking for the correct translation of the sign. They received a prompt answer and could continue their work. The sign was finally mounted in the city of Swansea in South Wales.
What neither you nor the sign writer knows is that the Welch “translation” says: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
The sign has been taken down.
Sign makers wondered how a certain traffic sign should appear in the Welsh language. They sent an email to the translator’s office asking for the correct translation of the sign. They received a prompt answer and could continue their work. The sign was finally mounted in the city of Swansea in South Wales.
What neither you nor the sign writer knows is that the Welch “translation” says: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
The sign has been taken down.
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