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Updates on official English and related issues

Wednesday, May 14, 2003
 
More Government Translation Errors

The Sierra Club reports:

One stumbling block to putting up warning signs in the [San Francisco] Bay Area was as prosaic as finding someone who could typeset Chinese, Cambodian, and Korean. In addition, the Cambodian translation turned out to be in the wrong dialect and thus completely offensive to its target audience.

|posted by Jim on 8:32 AM| Link
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