Comments on: Welsh roadsign carries email automated reply http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/11/01/welsh-roadsign-carries-email-automated-reply/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jesmond Darmanin http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/11/01/welsh-roadsign-carries-email-automated-reply/#comment-114235 Jesmond Darmanin Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:14:54 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6936#comment-114235 loolll thats so funny :D thank god the translation company didd'nt use some of these office auto replies http://www.itnewsblog.com/2008/06/24/some-of-the-best-out-of-office-auto-replies/ loolll thats so funny :D

thank god the translation company didd’nt use some of these office auto replies

http://www.itnewsblog.com/2008/06/24/some-of-the-best-out-of-office-auto-replies/

]]> By: Kurt http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/11/01/welsh-roadsign-carries-email-automated-reply/#comment-114229 Kurt Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:56:16 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6936#comment-114229 If even basic understanding of Welsh is so rare amongst the staff of a Welsh council office that they need to use external translators AND they don't know enough Welsh to at least be suspicious that it may not be accurate, then they should just admit its a monolingual English speaking nation. I am pretty sure that if the same happened in Ireland with Irish, or in New Zealand with Maori (just a couple of random examples) there would have been at least enough knowledge of those languages to at least have suspected that the translation was not correct, enough to justify a policy of dual language signage anyway. If even basic understanding of Welsh is so rare amongst the staff of a Welsh council office that they need to use external translators AND they don’t know enough Welsh to at least be suspicious that it may not be accurate, then they should just admit its a monolingual English speaking nation.

I am pretty sure that if the same happened in Ireland with Irish, or in New Zealand with Maori (just a couple of random examples) there would have been at least enough knowledge of those languages to at least have suspected that the translation was not correct, enough to justify a policy of dual language signage anyway.

]]> By: Mallik http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/11/01/welsh-roadsign-carries-email-automated-reply/#comment-114004 Mallik Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:12:31 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6936#comment-114004 translate.google.com does a decent job with translation and more importantly does it for free ;-) ~M~ translate.google.com does a decent job with translation and more importantly does it for free ;-)
~M~

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