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Because the first part of the sign makes perfect sense. Why not translate more.
Haha I remember the reason behind this sign. It was great.
Ryannon, wtf.
Wtf wtf?
Ryannon won the fore!
Ryannon wears the fez!
Ryannon wipes the floor!
Ryanonn whipped the friend?
Ryanonn stripped the french?!?!?
Ryannon went to France?
You see her underpants?
Haven’t had the chance!
Try asking her to dance.
Try tequila for a glance.
*looks askance*
*drops his pants*
*looks for a lance*
*starts to dance*
*shouts and rants*
*stamps on ants*
*wants to prance*
*loses ba-lance*
*Gets a chance*
*Decides to make camp*
*assumes the stance*
*stamps the tramp*
*gets tangled in clamps*
Ow, Ryannon, that hurt!
Be still, I am almost done with this tattoo.
Uh…whatcha tattooing there?
A drop down arrow in the small of your back for the user to have options.
Eh, I suppose it could be worse.
Make it say “Insert coin”
Or, “You must be this tall to ride”.
That’s better than “All you can eat for $1″
Do not fold coin!
…hm…another S&M comment…. *takes note*
Interesting…are you writing a thesis on S&M?
She can’t be, I’m recieving my docorate in S&M already.
No, I’m just conducting field studies. Also, I’m pointing out that ErickB is partial to certain types of comments…
Theres only one way to bust this myth….
Or, it could be that Mookie is partial to certain interpretations …
I think I may have to do a little research on this matter
Oh no…she’s not the only one who’s noticed! :p
We’ve felt this way for some time.
We’ve just been showing some restraints.
But don’t let that handcuff your commenting.
You can find it all here on the bailflog!
*grin* Well, if thats the dominant thought on the matter.
No more restraints then?
*whips for joy*
Ryannon wiggles the forlorn!
Ryannon was too fat!
you mean ‘phat’ right?
It’s the jeans, they always make me look fat.
You know I meant Phat.
lol. I almost got killed the other day when my wife asked me if her new jeans made her butt look big. I told her “No, your ass makes the jeans look big” It was said COMPLETELY tongue-in-cheek…but I was still forced to hide all the sharp objects in our house.
I would have shredded your privates.
Hmmm tongue-in-cheek and ass in the same comment?
D’oh.
*snicker*
Oh…HaHa…Ha..*trails off*
Bet this gets removed.
Forget shredding, I bet she would’ve pureed them.
I call that, talent.
Dude, new do new you! What is that, though? These avatars are so tiny…
Blue2th, does this comment make my butt look big…?
*innocent look*
my avatar? its cropped from the Lost Boys movie poster
1st define “big…”
Are you talking about:
(a) “big” like larger than an anorexic model’s?
or
(b) “big” like 2 overstuffed bean bag chairs?
Dragon, perhaps you should conceal that knife a bit better behind your back.
No no…you’re getting me mixed up with Ryannon.
*ducks*
Let me assure you, she is in no need of a knife. Her method of mayhem is much more sophisticated, and much hotter.
They sent a request for a translation and the response was from a person on vacation. They didn’t know that was what they were being told so they figured that was the translation into Welsh. I just read about it. They took the sign down promptly after finding out about their fail.
Aha! But not promptly enough! *maniacal laughter*
… so it was pretty much like the story behind the link named “Read the story here” below the picture.
Btw, you look like an elf.
Umm thank you?
Suave…
Where have you been young man?
Busy with university projects and my music. Haven’t really had time to visit Failblog at all.
I should be back for a week or two before I disappear for another one, though
*scootches closer to Mindmute for a week or two*
suave, suave, suavecito!!!
*dancing merengue*
And thats how Ryannon got fired from Welsh Sign Inc.
Did she go to work for teh Ladderless Window Cleaning Co?
shit! Why didn’t they just call Aberystwith Uni, the last word in Welsh language use? Doh!
*pulls up chair* Yes?
what was the reason? They only had one welsh speaker in the council??
what is welsh
This is the Welsh version of the Chinese restaurant called “Translate server error”
Hahaha yeah I was thinking that too. At least they *tried* to get this one translated by a real person.
this is in Swansea! i live in Swansea!…and um…well thats it. Also it doesnt matter if the translation is wrong, no one in the South is unable to read English.
FAIL!
LOL – unlike the South in the US, where there are quite a few people who are unable to read English!
I was raised in the south and the first illiterate person I met was in the south…south jersey. It’s everywhere, don’t blame us hicks.
Why Not?
Its easier that way
because some of us in the South aren’t total idiots, and we can’t choose where we grow up
Yeah! And the hunting season on illiterates was ended by Jimmy Carter.
i can because i’m a Texan and my cousins sure as heck act like illiterates.
In southern California we just speak spanish.
SÃ, es mucho más sencillo de esa manera.
First thing I learned in Spanish “sin semilla” WIN
ahh first thing I learned was uno.
Well technically, the first thing I learned was something I should not have been saying as a girl or at the age of 10. Also I have never smoked anything con semilla or sin semilla. But I knew my brothers found it very important that it was sin semilla.
Rather like everywhere else in the U.S.
Hey, at least you’re trying to preserve Welsh. There are quite a few indigenous American languages going by the wayside, and none of them are English.
think it’s just bad manners to translate it wrong. You just can’t get the staff these days!
“FFiledig!” as we say in Llandeilo.
*sigh*
Why so glum, chum?
It’s a busy day and I am in dire need of an EPIC fail for sure… This fail did not fill me up. It was a teaser fail. I’m still hungry for more fail.
One more thing…
“I did it all for the Mookie.”
(I’ve been meaning to post that since I saw your name last week.)
*sigh*
Our company forgot to pay us. There’s an epic fail for you.
If you want an EPIC fail, I’d try the movie Alexander. As much as I like Colin Farrell, that cinematic epic was a major failure. Or is that not what you meant?
*Agrees*
*Concurs*
Well…..open your mouth and say “AAAAAAAAAAAH”
hey, you poke you pay
Don’t laugh! This warning is serious!
I only eat home made fresh epic fail. What is the calorie count on this?
Nine thousand.
FFS, I sent this in over a week ago!
Failblog FAIL!
Where is it then, huh?? I didn’t see it otherwise I’d guarantee I would’ve filled that SOB up with useless posts! If you want to try and take credit for someone else’s post, at least come up with a better story!
This fail has been around on the (english) news for weeks. Shipment of fail covered it ages ago. New fail Fail.
Lol! Me too! Guess our UK fails aren’t as funny as retarted US fails.
no one fails as hard as the US. We do everything to the extreme
Retarted? You baked it again?
LOL That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Baked again!! Oh wait . . .
Because of how many submissions we get, it usually takes me approx 2 weeks to look at an individual email. A lot of pictures get submitted more than once, so I credit them to the first submitter.
I’m sure Loz can translate this for us.
Loz isn’t Welsh….or is that the joke….I don’t understand….*cries*
EB, why are you convinced I’m Welsh?!
Do you owe him gambling debts?
*chuckle* seemed like a good running gag, and I love good gag whenever possible.
A-HA! Mookie, are you writing all of these down?
Some men are like that EB. It makes them feel domina errr nevermind.
Like a running sore…
this isn’t welsh
Now THAT is fail, it clearly is Welsh. Are you American by any chance?
Actually, forget that, I doubt America has ever even heard of Wales.
Josie, the outlaw?
Josie the pussycat?
Oh, c’mon, we aren’t nearly that ignorant. We even made a motion picture about them. Free Willy.
No, you’re thinking of Banshee wails.
Pay no attention to that; it’s coming from Wall Street.
Yes…theres Blue whales, Sperm whales, humpback wakes, killer whales and the whale from Finding Nemo
ha so take that Americans know PLENTY about whales….
wait…
Wales?
*in Texan accent* He he he… dang old far’iner fergot the dad gum “H” in “Whales” YEE HAW! *fires revolver in air*
Home of werewolves and weresquirrels?
don’t you mean walewolves?
They have; it’s one of the places they say “OMG I’m Welsh too, my great-great-great aunt twice removed was Welsh, did you know her??” or “I’m Welsh in spirit!!” and draw a lot of faries. Although “I’m totally Irish!!!” tends to be more popular.
I know this all too well…
*facepalm*
Loz my grandfather came here from Ireland. The only thing I remember about him is his hat he always wore and his accent. He died when I was little but I will never forget his accent.
ahh so thats why your a wee little pixie-esque looking
oh and I forgot to say: in a damn-sexy kinda of way
*blush* well I will say that is much sweeter than “you look like an elf”
You’d think we hadn’t. I didn’t know Jones and Smith were Welsh names until I was an adult. Smith being the most common surname here AFAIK, that’s pretty bad.
Wow, most of my posts have been removed today.
That’s odd.
That’s been an ongoing thing for a couple of days now…very irritating.
What makes this worse is that sometimes you can be the removed posts from the browser where you posted from, but they can’t be seen from other computers.
I think that sometimes posts go to a state of “waiting for moderator to approve” or something like that.
So what you’re saying is that it’s kinda like when my dryer eats my socks, right?
The dryer is not eating your socks. Socks are the lavae form of clothes hangers. Haven’t you ever noticed that the number of hangers in your closet increases inversely proportional to the number of socks missing?
.
The dryer just provides the needed environment for their metamorphosis.
lavae socks… the final cure for cold feet..
Made from salamanders, for that rain forest chic.
Actually, the Invisible Pink Unicorn is the reason your socks disappear. And the reason your laundry turns pink sometimes.
No, noo, no. The Invisible Pink Unicorn is the reason your pantyhose keep disappearing and then winding up at the Lost & Found for the Gay Pride Parade.
I always thought it was my brother that was the reason why my pantyhose kept winding up at the Gay Pride Parade.
Does he have a large horn sprouting from his forehead?
I sure hope Ryannon doesn’t know the size of her brother’s horn!
Well if they are sharing pantyhose they must be pretty close.
Yes, your socks are in the back of the dryer, awaiting moderator approval of their release.
Oooh, that reminds me…
*looks around for socks with bells on them*
Lol. Awesome.
the english man who doesnt understand welsh sent the text to be translated to a translator via email, sadly the translator is out-of-office and an out-of-office auto-reply in welsh was sent, of course the poor english guy has no way of knowing that what he got is an out-of-office reply, not the translation he is expecting.
My question is this–why would a translator who obviously expects to be approached with requests from English-speaking people make his out-of-office reply in Welsh?
That makes no sense.
Y Taffiati.. the Welsh speaking Mafia
Never heard us called that! Usually it’s just the Taffia.
Yep, I agree. It’s ridiculous.
And yet, without that, we wouldn’t have this great fail to brighten up our morning.
Out of curiosity, how is the automatic avatar that failblog provides chosen?
lottery.
By the electoral college. They have to have something to do in the off season.
They have seers who delve into your soul and read your true self, and then translate what they find into icon form.
This is why I’m sooooooo amused by DrDr’s wee pink icon.
His icon isn’t the only thing that is wee and pink.
He’s got two degrees in burning.
er, as in, being burned.
*lays down smoke*
*sneaks away*
*pounce!*
I have a bukkit for you, m’dear.
Do you? Where was that bukkit when I needed it back in Me Fail?
Maybe because Welsh people e-mail him too?
Then the question becomes why his autoreply wasn’t bilingual too, that being his job and all.
Maybe it was bilingual when he was in college, but eventually it had to choose.
H said that was just a phase ihe was going through in college.
Coz’ he wants to mess with people
I had a URI in all of the ones that were removed.
That happened to me too the other day. I think it must have something to do with certain URI’s being barred or copyrighted?
Proly. Mine was linked to a personal youtube video.
I just did that today and so far it’s working fine. But that’s all subject to change.
Test.
Works.
Goofs off.
*clicks on random things in a studious manner*
Watch where you are clicking, I’m ticklish.
what is an URI, by the way?
In computing, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource on the Internet. …
or
The University of Rhode Island, a principal public research and graduate institution in the State of Rhode Island, provides undergraduate and graduate …
or
Uri Geller is most famous for his claim to be able to bend spoons and keys with his mind. An international star in the psychic circuit, Geller is a …
I think Skwerilly is auditioning for a TMI spot
You’re from the country/town of Tickland?
I’m not up on my geography anymore.
cracks one off
rubs one out…
runs a batch…
RE: B2.. so is that the real tool video or something youdid … I don’t watch music vids so i have no idea
Upper respiratory infections can be transmitted by comments! What new levels computer viruses have gotten to, they’re now passing to humans.
No wonder you got removed, you sick sneezy jerk. Now you’re making us all sick.
*ahh-choo*
Medical acronym win. Now get back to work you have patients to see.
The translator was out getting his privates shred.
-ded?
Not really, just a little under the weather. Thanks for asking though.
Me too! I think I caught my illness from Loz last week. Want to share my chicken soup?
Cicili didn’t make it did she? I am convinced my hotel room is a sick room. I am fine away from here and sick as soon as I come back in. Can’t wait to move into my place tomorrow.
Sadly it is not Cicili’s famous soup, it’s just from the bakery down the street. Hooray for moving out of the sick hotel room! But are you going to miss the weekly rapes?
This would only make sense if the translator’s message was only in Welsh. I mean, if they had both the English AND Welsh versions of “I am not in the office…” in their auto-response, then there wouldn’t have been any confusion. So that means the failure really is on the part of the translator, not the person misreading / misunderstanding their response as you might at first assume.
Or, more broadly, the failure is in the Welsh Language Act 1993, which gave Welsh equal status with English. Before that, Welsh was dying off, and English was being spoken more in the UK. Then for some reason they passed that, which basically rewards people for being obstinate and slows language homogenization in Britian.
Welsh is a language that should be allowed to die.
And if you go back even further, it’s actually the fault of the first group of people to start speaking any language. Without language, there would be no language based miscommunications.
I don’t agree. I don’t like vowels much.
Cwm being pronounced koom makes perfect sense to me.
That could be because you may have a problem with blocked vowels.
We thought we’d let English go first. We’re just being polite, and waiting for you all to fill up the airwaves with txtspk and lolspk and Newspeak and, through a combination of poor education standards and the underlying pernicious ignorance of the television-fed masses, consign Anglo-Saxon to the dustbin of history.
And then we move in; ac ar ol hynny fyddech chi oll un siarad Cymraeg … fel ni.
No, we won’t all speak Welsh; some of us will cling to our American Sign Language. I’m curious: Does Wales have a sign language?
Isn’t Welsh sign language the basis for this fail?
Oh SNAP! Good one, Mikey!
*facepalm!* I guess I left myself open for THAT one! Okay, to rephrase: Does Wales have a manual communication modality for the deaf?
Yes, its called a written language.
*sorry Mrs. Z I couldn’t resist*
Hey maybe Mrs. Z can finally tell us what a zj is O_o
“Beerfest”?
*heddesk*
w00t! ASL FTW! *signs “How are you?”*
(Yes, I’m aware of the irony.)
Age/Sex/Location?
this one always made me laugh…
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tm_headline=welsh-signwriter-s-rude-pop-at-english&method=full&objectid=19385281&siteid=50082-name_page.html
cymru am byth
NOOOO!!! It…must…LIVE!!! *applies lightning rods* *raises platform on chains*
Before the English arrived in what’s now known as Great Britain, everyone spoke a Celtic language, but since then we’ve been driven into Scotland,Ireland and Wales and our languages have almost been killed. Just because we want to keep our language and our history alive it seems that a lot of English people have become bitter and decided that they’re stupid lanuages that we don’t need. Did you think that everyone spoke English to begin with but then we just decided to invent Welsh,Gaelic etc? No, we had our own language,land and culture long before you came along and tried to take it all away.
I know of an ethnic group that should be allowed to die, but it would probably be taken as a threat, so I won’t elaborate.
But some of us are a little bit sick and tired of the ethnic Borg. Just because y’all don’t like rain and rocks doesn’t give you the right to lord it over the rest of us.
Ow. That hurts my brain
Well, we can debate the question of to whom the fail belongs, but there is no debate that it is funny!
I just got some very funny looks ‘cos of the way my braying laugh was reverberating off the walls.
Thank you, Failblog, for greatly improving my mood. Love you guys!
Love you too!
UAHSDuahsduhAS
fail!
Fail blog is awesome.
This reminds me of the naming of the kangaroo. It was named when a British explorer of some sort asked a native, “What is that?” (pointing at the kangaroo), and the native answered, “Kangaroo,” which translates to “I don’t know.”
Recognition of common urban legend: FAIL.
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“In the Guugu Yimidhirr language, spoken by the aboriginals of the area where Captain Cook’s party recorded the term kangooroo (the original spelling), this word (more accurately pronounced something like kang-ooroo) refers to a particular species of kangaroo, namely the large black kangaroo. The only error Cook’s party can be accused of is mistaking the name of one variety of kangaroo for the generic term.”
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–Bernard C., Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
(the above quote was from Cecil Adams’ website straightdope DOT com)
Yeah it’s a common myth in Australia. The version I heard was “I don’t understand” rather than “I don’t know” so it made a little more sense.
You actually found it credible that an Australian aborigine didn’t know what a kangaroo was? Dude, serious fail.
No, They wouldn’t have understood the English language. They would’ve said “I don’t know” as is WTF are you talking about, man?
I totally submitted this one myself.
Submission fail.
beautiful… absolutely beautiful
Welsh is its own language? …Jeez. First I find out Nottingham’s a real place, now Welsh is a language.
Evertide, the welsh language is now coming up tyowards its 6,000th birthday.
It is older than Latin and all but two ancient Egyptian dialects that at this moment nobody can speak. Officially it is the oldest surviving language on in Human history.
If you learn welsh, you are learning the birth of modern language. Welsh influenced all the languages you can think of from the Western World barring Japan… but Welsh is older than ancient Japanese and Chinese as well.
How Welsh has survived is anybodies guess… but as an english speaker myself I can say with 100% certainty that the english we speak will not last 2,000 years… let alone get near the 6,000 years Welsh has been going stong.
Anyone notice that this sign was on a road called Pant-y-Blawd?
How do you pronounce that? “Panty blood?”
Another fail!
Ewwwwwwww
eoooooooooooooooo
No, it’s pronounced ‘pant’ like what dogs do when they’re hot, ‘y’ like the u in ‘under’ and blawd like blah-ood.
The only ‘fail’ there is you presuming that every language is pronounced the same way as English.
And your inability to develop a sense of humor.
I think the fail is evidence of our sense of humour?
Fine-
some place names sound different if your pronounce them differently. LAWL!!!!
Snobbish parochialism fail.
Language with any damn vowels fail.
Tongue-in-cheek-detection fail.
Comeback fail.
Haha! Even though I get 2 fails I still laughed at this
Welsh has 7 vowels (the same ones as English plus Y and W), incase you were genuinely interested, b.
Hehe, we’re just giving you a hard time. Or perhaps I should day, a hfyyard tfwwwym.
Actually it’s ‘amser caled’
How would you say that?
hfyyard tfwwwym might be how they pronounce it in S.Wales, come to think of it…
Surely ‘amser anodd’? Caled relates to the physical property of hardness.
Lol… close but no cuban cigar my friend!
More like bloud than blood… as in sounding like cloud (the kind in the sky lol)
also, the hyphens denote a short break…. so it is Pant Ee Bloud.
Wales just fails. I’m surprised that that’s a language, given the fact that those words would be impossible to say aloud.
Not too impossible, unless you are the American cousin who got drunk and is trying to sing Sospan Vach.
Kenny, if it wasn’t for the Welsh you would be speaking German in your american motherland!
Before the constitution was created your forefather’s held a vote on what language will be the US Primary language… German was in the lead until some Welsh people voted English!
PS. Wales built america and nearly all your forefather’s were of Welsh heritage and brought up the welsh way. Eveythying your constitution is… is based on Welsh ideals, welsh culture! USA = Wales’s second home.
Know your own history before attacking someone else’s…
TRANSLATION FAIL, that Gaelic there is no welsh language
Of course there’s a Welsh language. Gaelic is an Irish language.
Awareness Fail.
Irish, Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh and Breton are all reasonably similar, for obvious reasons.
Welsh does exist.
Promise.
i fail to see why this is a fail…
or funny…
is there any irony?…
Bloody Welsh. The only good bits there are Eve Myles and the girl who sings “Mercy”
I looked it up– that’s actually what it says!
bit I am being crookedly the office signs this he owned may I send any time I w ng…
I love welsh translators
isn’t the real issue the really horrendous way that ‘Welsh Fail’ has been translated?
(welsh speaker talking, obviously.)
Neshi feddwl yr un peth! Aflwyddiant?!?
Ha! A fi hefyd – gweld isod; nes i ffaelu (haha!) darllen i gyd o’r atebion cyn ychwanegu ateb fy hun.
Yn bersonol mae’n well gen i “methiant” os oes rhaid dewis gair.
Methiant neu ffaelu swni ‘di deud ‘fyd. Mae o dal yn andros o ddoniol, swni ‘di licio cael gweld o’n fyw ond dwi’n byw yn y Gogledd felly rhaid fi aros tan mae rhywyn arall yn ‘aflwyddio’ fyny fama! lol!
Ah – meddwl taw’r Gogledd oddo chi’n dod o pan darllenais i dy ysgrifennu; hwntw dw i, ond yn anffodus nid un sy’n byw yn agos i’r arwydd yma.
Ond dwi’n cofio unwaith pan cyfieithodd y Swyddfa Gymraeg y gair, “plan” new “scheme” neu rhywbeth fel “cynllwyn” yn lle “cynllun”. XD
Oni’n meddwl fod cynllwyn ney cynllun yn iawn? Ella ‘mond yn y gogledd haha! Mae’r arwydd ar y ffordd allan o mcdonalds ni’n deud ‘di o lch am ddod’ fel 5 gair ar wahan! Oedd o’n arfer bod yn waeth ond dwi’m yn cofio beth oedd o’n ddeud!:)
Wel, o leia lawr fan hyn, mae cyllun yn golygu plan ond ma cynllwyn yn agosach is ‘conspiracy’? Fallai ‘mond yn y de, tho?
Fodd bynnag, stori gwych am y McDonalds.
Dwi’n meddwl fod chdi’n iawn actually! Hefyd neshi glwad fod yna selsig o’r enw ‘dragon sausages’ oherwydd fod nw’n dod o Gymru, ond roedd rhaid newid yr enw rhag ofn fod bobl yn meddwl ei bod nw’n cynwys darnau o ddreigiau!
a) hilarious
though, b) “Aflwyddiant,” while technically correct, is really closer in meaning to ‘unsuccessful’. “Methiant” or “Ffaelu” would be better welsh words to use in place of FAIL. /nitpicking. :p
This was featured on Graham Norton this week. Unfortunately, his Welsh guest, Tom Jones, doesn’t read welsh, so he had to explain it and have someone in the audience concur.
Ah yes, I remember this and seeing the sign lol…..
Not bad for £54,000 of taxpayers money lol…. (that was $93,000 at the time the sign was made lol)
Gotta love my city!
If the GPS gave correct directions, then this sign would not be necessary.
I get my Welsh news on line, love hearing about things in Wales here in the US
Now THAT is a TRUE fail. :]
Rydw i’n siarad typyn bach o Gymraeg, ond mae gas gen i Cymraeg. Mae well gen i dysgy Frangeg. Ond dydw i ddim i dysgu cymraeg nawr, achos mae fy GCSEs yn gorfen!! Rydw I’n hapus iawn, a budda i ddym yn siarad Cymraeg!