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Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 03, 2008 @01:39PM 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?

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I bet our Welsh readers are really laughing it up. (Score:1)

by sonciwind ( 970454 ) writes:

Me, I only snickered.
InterTran translation (Score:2)

by AJWM ( 19027 ) writes:

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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