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Out of Office Reply Printed On Traffic Sign

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'm-not-stopping-here-until-Monday dept.

Atari400 writes "The BBC is reporting on an unfortunate sign-post translation problem. Officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign and got a welsh away message as a response. Guess what got printed on the sign?" Has anyone ever found an away message to be useful?

2 comments

  1. I bet our Welsh readers are really laughing it up. by sonciwind · · Score: 1

    Me, I only snickered.

  2. InterTran translation by AJWM · · Score: 1

    Running the Welsh through the InterTran translator gives us: "Bit I am being crookedly the office at this time. You send any time I w translate."

    It's probably something to do with Torchwood.

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    -- Alastair