Comments on: Welsh Fail

By: Naedwn

Naedwn — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:48:19 +0000

Your translator failed. The translation on the picture is accurate. Automatic translators suck.
Learn Welsh and you will see that it is correct. “Anfonwch unrhyw waith i’w gyfieithu.” As an example :
Anfon -wch (send with formal, imperative ending)
unrhyw – any
waith (mutated from ‘gwaith) – work
i’w – to be
gyfieithu – to translate (in the context: to be translated)

Seriously, NEVER trust a stupid online translator – it will make you look foolish.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:23:26 +0000

My geography teacher had that as his wallpaper for a while.

By: Bob1998

Bob1998 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:53:33 +0000

Your translation failed! I’ve just went to a Welsh to English converter, and it says:
“Bit I am being crookedly the office at this time. You send any time I w translate.” Still a good fail though.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:46:55 +0000

Welsh has survived through welsh people teaching their children it despite “the welsh knot”, immigration, invasion, etc. There are now schools with everything taught through welsh ( I go to one), even foreign languages are taught through welsh.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:44:13 +0000

Wy mor falch mae ‘na siaradwyr cymraeg ar failblog. Ar hap? Wy’n gwybod……..

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:41:10 +0000

twat.

By: alice

alice — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:49:52 +0000

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!

By: D.M.G

D.M.G — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:30:43 +0000

what is welsh

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:22:44 +0000

Now THAT is a TRUE fail. :]

By: Estron

Estron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:41:25 +0000

shit! Why didn’t they just call Aberystwith Uni, the last word in Welsh language use? Doh!

By: Estron

Estron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:36:34 +0000

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.

By: Estron

Estron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:33:13 +0000

what was the reason? They only had one welsh speaker in the council??

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:48:12 +0000

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

By: O

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:26:34 +0000

Surely ‘amser anodd’? Caled relates to the physical property of hardness.

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:16:06 +0000

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…

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:10:29 +0000

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.

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:07:41 +0000

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.

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:55:53 +0000

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!

By: Tommy WinBear

Tommy WinBear — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:08:45 +0000

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.

By: Wylizzle

Wylizzle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:42:09 +0000

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?

By: Wylizzle

Wylizzle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:29:49 +0000

Coz’ he wants to mess with people

By: Wylizzle

Wylizzle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:26:56 +0000

Lol. Awesome.

By: Kayley

Kayley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:45:04 +0000

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!

By: becca

becca — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:34:51 +0000

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.

By: Kayley

Kayley — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:26:44 +0000

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!:)

By: becca

becca — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:38:14 +0000

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

By: Kayley

Kayley — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:28:59 +0000

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!

By: becca

becca — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:42:01 +0000

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.

By: becca

becca — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:36:53 +0000

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

By: Kayley

Kayley — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:25:37 +0000

Neshi feddwl yr un peth! Aflwyddiant?!?

By: babs

babs — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:31:02 +0000

Awareness Fail.

Irish, Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh and Breton are all reasonably similar, for obvious reasons.

Welsh does exist.

Promise.

By: babs

babs — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:27:01 +0000

isn’t the real issue the really horrendous way that ‘Welsh Fail’ has been translated?

(welsh speaker talking, obviously.)

By: Kayley

Kayley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:48:51 +0000

hfyyard tfwwwym might be how they pronounce it in S.Wales, come to think of it…

By: Kayley

Kayley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20:18 +0000

Actually it’s ‘amser caled’ How would you say that?

By: b

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:07:51 +0000

Hehe, we’re just giving you a hard time. Or perhaps I should day, a hfyyard tfwwwym.

By: Kayley

Kayley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:54:58 +0000

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.

By: ladyrazzle

ladyrazzle — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:35:34 +0000

Never heard us called that! Usually it’s just the Taffia.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:21:28 +0000

That could be because you may have a problem with blocked vowels.

By: rgsupergrover

rgsupergrover — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:57:45 +0000

bit I am being crookedly the office signs this he owned may I send any time I w ng…
I love welsh translators

By: failblog

failblog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:14:33 +0000

Love you too!

By: failblog

failblog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:09:38 +0000

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.

By: b

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:47:05 +0000

Snobbish parochialism fail.

Language with any damn vowels fail.

Tongue-in-cheek-detection fail.

Comeback fail.

By: Moonshade

Moonshade — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:40:21 +0000

I looked it up– that’s actually what it says!

By: Kayley

Kayley — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:55:07 +0000

I think the fail is evidence of our sense of humour?
Fine-
some place names sound different if your pronounce them differently. LAWL!!!!

By: Tj Tengu

Tj Tengu — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:42:21 +0000

Bloody Welsh. The only good bits there are Eve Myles and the girl who sings “Mercy”

By: mejrm

mejrm — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:55:56 +0000

i fail to see why this is a fail…

or funny…

is there any irony?…

By: Joshy!

Joshy! — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:49:08 +0000

Age/Sex/Location?

By: raelalt

raelalt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:47:39 +0000

And your inability to develop a sense of humor.

By: raelalt

raelalt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:44:31 +0000

Well if they are sharing pantyhose they must be pretty close.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:26:06 +0000

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.