London 2012: Westfield Arabic banners ‘incoherent’
A London shopping centre has created Arabic signs that are “completely incoherent” to speakers of the language, a cultural organisation said.
Westfield Stratford is displaying huge banners welcoming visitors from all over the world for the Olympics.
The Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) said the words were back to front and not joined up as they must be in Arabic. (…)
Westfield Stratford’s error appeared on welcome banners and on staff T-shirts. More.
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Regno Unito
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I wouldn't be surprised. I bet there are loads of translation gaffes during this period.
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Not necessarily machine translation. They must’ve used a program incapable of properly rendering the Arab script to print out the banners.
Paesi Bassi
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18911599
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And here in Denmark a classic is the camping site that had just installed new toilets and advertised their "delicious handicapfriendly toilets". Bon appetit!
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