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How Do You Say ‘My Bad’ in Welsh?

This is priceless. The bit in Welsh there, rather than translating the traffic info in English, is actually an “out of office” auto reply that made it in by error.

What went wrong?

All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, so the local authority e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only” The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages.”

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 1:02 pm and is filed under Traffic Signs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “How Do You Say ‘My Bad’ in Welsh?”

  1. Christopher Monnier Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    We need a universal “out of office” icon.

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