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« on: August 29, 2013, 11:29:34 »
Love this!  Cheesy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm

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Swansea council got lost in translation when it was looking to halt heavy goods vehicles using a road near an Asda store in the Morriston area.

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.

The notice went up and all seemed well - until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error...
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2013, 13:15:12 »
Look at the date, Phil - 2008. I'm afraid this is quite well known, although I have to say, still funny.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2013, 13:21:17 »
Quote from: trainer on August 29, 2013, 13:15:12
Look at the date, Phil - 2008. I'm afraid this is quite well known, although I have to say, still funny.

The story has been recycled today by another media, have seen it in the news today online!
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2013, 13:25:52 »
In response to my above post. The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) have issued this as a news story in 2008, 2010 and 2013. The Daily Mail used it as a story in 2011.
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2013, 14:22:12 »
Well I still think it's funny, and definitely a first for this forum, so I'm not about to delete it Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2013, 23:36:47 »
Actually, (cough), I posted it on this forum, in March 2010, at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=6341.msg63940#msg63940  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2013, 08:15:55 »
In that case I do apologise, as Graham and I noted yesterday neither of us had actually spotted that one. Nice find!
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2013, 08:18:44 »
Never hurts to laugh twice at a good joke  Grin
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