Translation error puts ‘out of office’ reply on road sign
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Translating can be a tricky business - but this is an error that you’d never think could happen. When officials sent a road sign to be translated into Welsh, they thought the reply they received was the translation. Unfortunately, it was the translator’s out of office reply. The result was a road sign with the Welsh text: I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.
(It should have read: No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.)
According to the BBC story, much blame is being heaped on officials, but surely some fault has to lie with a translator who only includes one language version of their out of office reply.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. Check out the other road sign cock-ups:
