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E-mail error ends up in road sign
- JadeNB 12y agoI don't get this last one: > 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. Is it sarcasm? That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
- AlexMuir 12y agoAberdeenshire is in Scotland. The explanation will almost certainly be that the site fencing was on hire, and no-one bothered taking off the old signs.
- philtar 12y agoAberdeenshire is in Scotland.
- Dobbs 12y agoAberdeenshire is in Scotland. Which isn't bilingual welsh/english.
- JadeNB 12y agoAh, I wasn't paying attention. Nonetheless, 'mystified' seems a bit strong. The US isn't bilingual anything, but I am not mystified when I see signage in Spanish as well as English.
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoThere are many people in the US who speak Spanish, and many of these can read it as well. There are few speakers of Welsh in Scotland, even fewer who can read welsh. It would be as odd as having French-English signs in the US.
- Jasonic_onkey 12y agoMaybe they were just over-reacting... It doesn't really bother me if a road sign is written in a different language as long as I see a translations or something. That is all that matters really.