Road signs - the funny and hilarious...

there is no accounting for foreign spelling

 

Well, since this is a boat forum..



Think the intended point is for motorboats to slow down before they enter the channel.. And this in an oldish Swedish street sign for crossing roads safely.

 

Sjajnom stranom prema gore!

 

LOL! What's that, a translation of "sunny side up"? If it is refered to fried eggs, we have a name for it which is as curious and funny as the English one: "Jaje na oko", which means literally "egg on the eye".
- "May I have one egg on the eye, please?"

 

Shiny side up. Means "keep the rubber side down".

 

I think this one has a great potential for educational purposes, I might make a good use of it:



We can occasionally see similar calculations on this forum too.

 

It's about cars, and thus about roads - so it qualifies again:

 

Jesus must be around somewhere.

 

The old to the pic on the previous page seems to be no more valid, so here comes the updated one:

 

The street artist "Clet"

 

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.

Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".

So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.

"When they're proofing signs, they should really use someone who speaks Welsh," said journalist Dylan Iorwerth.
It's good to see people trying to translate but they should really ask for expert help


The blunder is not the only time Welsh has been translated incorrectly or put in the wrong place:

• Cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were left confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an "inflamed bladder".

• In the same year, a sign for pedestrians in Cardiff reading 'Look Right' in English read 'Look Left' in Welsh.

• In 2006, a shared-faith school in Wrexham removed a sign which translated the Welsh for staff as "wooden stave".

• Football fans at a FA Cup tie between Oldham and Chasetown - two English teams - in 2005 were left scratching their heads after a Welsh-language hoarding was put up along the pitch. It should have gone to a match in Merthyr Tydfil.

• People living near an Aberdeenshire building site in 2006 were mystified when a sign apologising for the inconvenience was written in Welsh as well as English.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-900-miles-gps-error-181605523.html

 

And more GPS hijinks. Here's a guy who had to put up a road sign telling everyone he didn't steal their phone!

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-GPS-Glitch-Making-Poor-Guys-Life-Hell-122764

 

Oh, they call it "distraction" now?

 

The council worker with the brain cell was on holiday when they painted this sign on the road