{"id":1140,"date":"2016-09-18T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T11:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geolinguistica.org\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2024-08-02T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:18:07","slug":"lost-in-translation-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/2016\/09\/18\/lost-in-translation-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in translation &#8211; Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sign-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sign-1.jpg 460w, https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sign-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>A council put up a Welsh language road sign reading \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I am out of the office at the moment<\/span>\u201d when it should have said \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">No entry for heavy goods vehicles<\/span>\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Swansea council contacted its in-house translation service when designing the bilingual sign. The seeds of confusion were sown when officials received an automated email response in Welsh from an absent translator, saying: \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Unaware of its real meaning, officials had it printed on the sign. The council took down the sign after Welsh speakers spotted the mistake.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A council put up a Welsh language road sign reading \u201cI am out of the office at the moment\u201d when it should have said \u201cNo entry for heavy goods vehicles\u201d. Swansea council contacted its in-house translation service when designing the bilingual sign. The seeds of confusion were sown when officials received an automated email response &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/2016\/09\/18\/lost-in-translation-wales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Sigue leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lost in translation &#8211; Wales<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,766],"tags":[131,835,836,224],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenguas-celticas","category-traduccion","tag-gales","tag-gales-2","tag-senaletica","tag-traduccion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanaverba.org\/academia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}