E-mail error ends up on road sign
Sometimes translations can be very funny. In this case the highway department asked for a translation of the sign above and received a response from the translation service. Assuming that they received the proper translation from English into Welsh, they printed the sign and installed it.
Unfortunately, the translation was not quite correct.
All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, so the local authority e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only”.
The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages.
The notice went up and all seemed well – until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error.
Welsh-language magazine Golwg was promptly sent photographs of the offending sign by a number of its readers.
Southwest Airlines rejects this PETA ad
Southwest airlines rejected the advertisement show above. TSA would be pleased with Southwest, however few others seem to think the ad was that objectionable.
Southwest has dubbed a new PETA ad “too sexy” for its in-flight magazine, Spirit. Touting a vegan diet, the ad shows a security scan of a woman in her underwear with the words, “Be Proud of Your Body Scan: Go Vegan.”
Southwest Airlines Senior Account manager Diane Ciaglia told PETA the ad is “too provocative to run in our publication,” writes Adrants.
Countering Southwest, PETA Senior VP Dan Mathews said, “Our ad is less sensational than many of Southwest’s own promotions. The airline may have canned it because the company is based in Dallas, the heart of the beef belt.”
For dogs only: near-silent recital at Sydney Opera House
OK, this is truly bizarre. I can imagine an auditorium full of dogs howling along to the music. “Music for Dogs” will be performed in Sydney, Australia, on June 5th. I would expect that concert-goers will bring their dogs along. The show is free to all.
The 20-minute piece, written and performed by Anderson, will be played at high frequency like a dog whistle — a riot of sound for the canines while their owners will be more aware of the noise of the lapping of Sydney Harbour.
Some element of noise will be audible to the human ear — in the form of spoken word and and string instrumentation — but the bulk of the performance on the Opera House forecourt will be for dog ears only.
Anderson, who reportedly owns a rat terrier, said dogs are believed to like the sound of harmonic chords and stringed instruments and, of course, the human voice.
The event is the quirkiest to be hosted by the Opera House since March, when the landmark building was the backdrop for 5,000 nudes posing for photographer Spencer Tunick.
After several decades working in a variety of jobs as a newspaper writer, event publicist, communications specialist, and marketing director, Karen Cummings is now “retired” and working on Travelers United’s social media and newsletters in addition to occasionally contributing a travel-related article to TU’s blog. She lives close to her family in Fryeburg, Maine, and travels as often as she can.
