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For our great Friends Robin and Erika :-)
BBC 31-10-2008
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”.
So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.
Oh well … c’mon .. give them a breake :-) .. poor English don’t speak any language … sometimes not even … english :-)
And one more :
The blunder is not the only time Welsh has been translated incorrectly or put in the wrong place:
• Cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were left confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an “inflamed bladder”.
• In the same year, a sign for pedestrians in Cardiff reading ‘Look Right’ in English read ‘Look Left’ in Welsh.
• In 2006, a shared-faith school in Wrexham removed a sign which translated the Welsh for staff as “wooden stave”.
• Football fans at a FA Cup tie between Oldham and Chasetown - two English teams - in 2005 were left scratching their heads after a Welsh-language hoarding was put up along the pitch. It should have gone to a match in Merthyr Tydfil.
• People living near an Aberdeenshire building site in 2006 were mystified when a sign apologising for the inconvenience was written in Welsh as well as English.
31.October.2008
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Why I love YouTube
well .. without YouTube, without Last.fm …. so much music will stay hidden from me …
and well … this is just a one simple example :-)
enjoy .. or not .. well .. is all up to you … and I hope it’s not Wednesday :-)
23.October.2008
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Asiemut
Asiemut is the story of a french canadian couple, Mélanie & Olivier, that choose a journey… but most would call it a long adventure, approximately 8000 km long. Riding their bicyles & pedaling through Asia. They traveled from Mongolia to Kolkata, at the mouth of the Ganges in India, passing through Xinjiang, the Taklamakan desert, Tibet & Nepal… Asiemut is their first film.
ITALY August 2008 - ASIEMUT wins the “Oscar of the Oscars” amongst all the winning mountain & adventure films in 2007-2008! ASIEMUT has now won 34 prizes over the world…
5.October.2008
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