• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    In Wales road signs are printed in both English and Welsh. When a new sign was being made someone sent the English part to a translator, who’s out of office message was in Welsh. They assumed that message was the translation and printed it on the sign.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mistranslated-welsh-traffic-sign/

    Not a translation error but the worst tattoo I ever saw on someone was a guy with a bloody tampon tramp stamp.

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      2 months ago

      bloody tampon tramp stamp

      “bloody” as in bloody idiot, or “bloody” as in black pudding?

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      Given your job is a translator, why would you assume the person emailing you can understand Welsh? That one is entirely on the translator.