...my own true Hollywood story.... (annamaryse) wrote in linguaphiles,
...my own true Hollywood story....
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ganked from montreal

Which is another place that has bilingual signage issues....



This picture was taken from Wales. The Welsh text apparently reads something on the order of 'I'm not at the office at the moment' - the email auto-response from the translator asked to translate this text from English.
-- As reported in the Guardian.

Thanks to a user named wojzeh.
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