more translation fun

excerpt from BBC article:

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”.


Link to BBC article.

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2 thoughts on “more translation fun

  1. I have no proper grasp of the Cyrillic alphabet – and no Russian vocabulary, so I’ll hazard a guess that Olbqas’ comment sounds like

    Khoroshch pishcheshch

    What this may mean I have no idea, but it is suggestive.

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