E-mail error ends up on road sign

[caddyman]

The BBC website brings us this marvellous cockup from Swansea.

All road signs in Wales are bilingual. Can you guess what's wrong with this residential road sign? Have a guess before you read the article!


"It's good to see people trying to translate but they should really ask for expert help" - Dylan Iorwerth, Golwg magazine

Comments

[irdm.livejournal.com]

Very much like that restaurant in Beijing

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

I wonder what, 'This is a waste of money, your language lost now live with it' translates as? I'm not welshist btw, I just love vowels.

[theo]

Oh my poor old sides.

[kathbad]

Brilliant.

I often wonder why anyone would translate something into a language in which they are not fluent, and not check with someone who is fluent.

Perhaps I should do the same with the previous sentence.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

They did though. They sent it to their translator and that's what they got sent back.

His / her out of office message.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Hee Hee when the BBC sent a camera crew to film the sign they found just the posts, the council had removed the sign just as soon as they discovered what it really said.
It just goes to show what a nonsense this bilingual signs thing really is.
I recently spent weeks and weeks finding more than one person to translate an information leaflet about Gwent family history society into Welsh.

[ghatanothoa.livejournal.com]

Checked out the links along the side of the page, the school sign was also brilliant