Ambulance... Ambiwlans - Has dumbing down gone too far?
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timmartin said:
sorry if this has been posted already (thread is 140+ pages...) - but great article from a while back relating to translations to Welsh:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm
Yeah, been done, this is what happens to them afterhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm
Related to ambiwlanses...
For quite some time I've been annoyed by Tesco's home delivery vehicles. Why? Because glimpsed briefly, from the front, they look like ambulances used to :
See? White van, two blue bits on top. ambulance, innit?
Now I've slowly become aware that ambulances are no longer white with blue bits, and are now yellow with green bits. Unfortunately this hasn't helped; last week I gave priority, unnecessarily, to a Morrison's home delivery van.
For quite some time I've been annoyed by Tesco's home delivery vehicles. Why? Because glimpsed briefly, from the front, they look like ambulances used to :
See? White van, two blue bits on top. ambulance, innit?
Now I've slowly become aware that ambulances are no longer white with blue bits, and are now yellow with green bits. Unfortunately this hasn't helped; last week I gave priority, unnecessarily, to a Morrison's home delivery van.
This is the Welsh Phonetic Alphabet, is it?
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the b
ds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the b
ds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
handpaper said:
Related to ambiwlanses...
For quite some time I've been annoyed by Tesco's home delivery vehicles. Why? Because glimpsed briefly, from the front, they look like ambulances used to :
See? White van, two blue bits on top. ambulance, innit?
Not just me then - those two bits of blue either side of the fridge unit. Every time.For quite some time I've been annoyed by Tesco's home delivery vehicles. Why? Because glimpsed briefly, from the front, they look like ambulances used to :
See? White van, two blue bits on top. ambulance, innit?
DickyC said:
This is the Welsh Phonetic Alphabet, is it isn't it?
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the bds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the b
ds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
DickyC said:
This is the Welsh Phonetic Alphabet, is it?
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the bds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
Genuine laughter here at that one "You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the b
ds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
james_tigerwoods said:
DickyC said:
This is the Welsh Phonetic Alphabet, is it?
"You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the bds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."
Genuine laughter here at that one "You got the reg number, there, do you?"
"Yes, it's YH63 KPV. That's Ystlum-Haul-Six-Three, we don't have a K, that'll be one of them English ones, Pysgodyn, and look! There's another one! V. What the hell's a V? Just arrest the b
ds. They're in a Morrison's truck heading west pretending to be an ambiwlans."It's not a truck, it's a van, you 'tard...
A stand-up comedian / restaurant owner in North Wales recently had signs made up in his car park as pay-back for poor Welsh-English translations
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cafe-...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cafe-...
Rh14n said:
A stand-up comedian / restaurant owner in North Wales recently had signs made up in his car park as pay-back for poor Welsh-English translations
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cafe-...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cafe-...
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