BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?

Subject: BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 04:42 PM

Can anyone confirm that such a sign really exists?

The sign is the result, it is said, of the Highway Dept.
sending the English text for a road sign
to a Welsh translator,
and receiving an e-mail reply,
which the Highway people hastily had
made into a bi-lingual English-Welsh sign.


English:
No entry for heavy goods vehicles.
Residential site only.

underneath:
Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd.
Anfonwch unrhyw waith i'w gyfieithu.

Subject: RE: BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 06:58 PM

No such sign exists. It was taken down several years ago after being on the news.

The story is from 2008: Wales online
The Welsh part was, roughly "I'm not in the office at the moment, please send any work to be translated".

Subject: RE: BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 08:28 PM

At least someone cares about the rest of us. Now I can LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 08:35 PM

Bit of an ancient joke to say the least. Maybe you have to live here.

Subject: RE: BS: hear about the road sign in Welsh?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Nov 19 - 10:18 AM

Not a myth, just amusing history now.

And FWIW it has been said, and I have never had it contradicted that:

In Welsh hospitals you can have a coloured wristband to tell the nurses you want to converse in Welsh, and a different one to inform you only speak in English, and a colour for implying you "DON'T CARE AS LONG AS THE NURSE CAN DO THE JOB"

There is also a feeling that the insistence from the Welsh parliament on nurses who speak Welsh get preference for employment, that it is weakening the quality and staffing levels. Nurses who move there with their spouses who can't find gainful employment, exist. And a small number (you can't get the stats anyway) is no excuse.