Re: Welsh road sign 'lost' in translation

[John Payne <john () sackheads org>]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 1:41 PM, David Lodge wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:04:03 -0000, Juha-Matti Laurio
> <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
> > they received an automated e-mail written in Welsh that read:
> > "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be
> > translated."
>
> It does make one wonder why in nieflheim a person who's job was to
> translate English in to what is effectively a dead language (i.e.  
> Welsh)
> was doing only putting his out of the office notification in Welsh...

Careful boyo...

http://www.eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2955&Itemid=1&lang=en

Wikipedia puts the number of speakers of Welsh north of 750,000.   
Admittedly they're all at least bilingual...

> Then again with a lot of the facsist Welsh I've met it wouldn't  
> surprise
> me :-)

Heh... it's also those damn Argentineans too...
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