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'I am not in the office': How an automated email reply ended up on a Welsh road sign
(Thanks to Claire Martin)
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March 22, 2010
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Once again, a tragic failure of the English to learn how to speak....Welsh?
Posted by: Steve | March 22, 2010 at 12:34 PM
In Hungarian, that reads "My hovercraft is full of eels."
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM
and the flay rod's gone out on the treadle.
Posted by: mudstuffin | March 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Mawr!
Posted by: bonmot | March 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM
The Daily Mail doesn't usually get scooped that bad. I can't believe I didn't send it in back in November.
Posted by: oneblankspace | March 22, 2010 at 01:20 PM
This has a familiarity that makes me think someone's getting fired.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | March 22, 2010 at 01:24 PM
From oneblankspace's link:
"...a sign for pedestrians in Cardiff reading 'Look Right' in English read 'Look Left' in Welsh. "
Posted by: wiredog | March 22, 2010 at 01:46 PM
Is e-mail ar padraig. Nil me se ar an oifig inniu. Cuir an cuirt orm nios deanai, maise a da hoile.
Posted by: padraig | March 22, 2010 at 02:04 PM
Actually, the proper Welsh translation is:
Dim mynediad ar gyfer cerbydau nwyddau trwm. Safle preswyl yn unig.
At least that's according to Google Language Tools.
As an added bonus:
My hovercraft yn llawn o llysywod.
Posted by: Ernie G | March 22, 2010 at 02:41 PM
padraig is just showing off.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 22, 2010 at 02:45 PM
No hablo Welsh-o
Posted by: Siouxie | March 22, 2010 at 02:53 PM
Are there many similarities between Welsh and Gaelic?
Posted by: bonmot | March 22, 2010 at 03:08 PM
Siouxie,
He's saying "Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas."
Posted by: wiredog | March 22, 2010 at 03:08 PM
cindy: Ni ha!
bon: Irish and Welsh are both modern forms of Gaelic. One of 'em's a little more modern than the other, iykwim.
w-dog: Your flying lizard has chest pains...? sorry, can't make out the rest.
Posted by: padraig | March 22, 2010 at 03:24 PM
" Mind the gap. "
Posted by: Clankazoid | March 22, 2010 at 03:50 PM
That's quite a Welsh rare bit of work!
Posted by: bonmot | March 22, 2010 at 03:59 PM
Oneblankspace, I don't know about the Daily Mail, but the Daily Telegraph raised a few eyebrows a couple days ago with this headline -- which they quickly corrected, so don't bother looking it up at their website...
Posted by: Steve Haller | March 22, 2010 at 04:22 PM
That must've hurt, eh, Steve?
Posted by: O the U(manity) | March 22, 2010 at 07:09 PM
How.
Large.
Was.
It?
Posted by: O the U(manity) | March 22, 2010 at 07:14 PM
That's almost as good as this.
Posted by: Shankar | March 22, 2010 at 07:45 PM
I once sent an email to a government office with whom my employer does business requesting a map of a certain place, preferably laminated.
They sent back the email. Blown up. And laminated.
This was a government agency that works in defense.
Posted by: Mr. Mark | March 23, 2010 at 07:25 PM