The Joy of Mistranslation

[MacCruiskeen]

E-mail error ends up on road sign



The English is clear enough to lorry drivers - but the Welsh reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."

[barracuda]

I had no idea Cthulhu was speaking Welsh all these years.

[sunny]

Hmmph. I misread the thread title as "The Joy of Masturbation".

[MacCruiskeen]

I had no idea Cthulhu was speaking Welsh all these years.

The Call of Cthulhu:

If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store ... roduct&2=8

[MacCruiskeen]

Hmmph. I misread the thread title as "The Joy of Masturbation".

There's nothing to stop you starting that thread, sunny.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

The Call of Cthulhu:

If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh!

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store ... roduct&2=8

That's brilliant. Talk about a selling-point!

Every film released from now on should have that line in bold type on the poster.

[stefano]

The mystery of Ireland's worst driver

Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged.

He had been wanted from counties Cork to Cavan after racking up scores of speeding tickets and parking fines.

However, each time the serial offender was stopped he managed to evade justice by giving a different address.

But then his cover was blown.

It was discovered that the man every member of the Irish police's rank and file had been looking for - a Mr Prawo Jazdy - wasn't exactly the sort of prized villain whose apprehension leads to an officer winning an award.

In fact he wasn't even human.

"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," read a letter from June 2007 from an officer working within the Garda's traffic division.

"Having noticed this, I decided to check and see how many times officers have made this mistake.

"It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities."

[Penguin]

Hmmph. I misread the thread title as "The Joy of Masturbation".

There's nothing to stop you starting that thread, sunny.

We had a club night themed masturbation once.
Everyone talked about how they masturbate, what they especially like, what was the weirdest place, hottest place, what aids one uses, have you done it in a group, and so on.

It was pretty enlightening. I learned quite a few things!
(it was a GLBT-club.... In case you were wondering...)