A half-arsed attempt to understand why everything goes beep, why smart people still think and do stupid things, and if any genuinely cool ideas are allowed out to play. If you spot a grammatical error and if she still draws breath, take it up with Mrs Pamela Hill. She taught me Eng Lang and Lit to Ordinary Level well over a quarter of a century ago. I'm trying to express ideas I find interesting but she taught me how. I was away when we did semicolons.
The BBC reports on a sign erected by Swansea Council. In line with the Council's bilingual policy, it contains both English and Welsh versions of the same phrase.
Nothing wrong with that, you may say... unless you can read Welsh. Translated, it reads, "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." What do they say about assumption being the mother of all cock-ups?
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment