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Or rather should I say Welrish? Maybe Relsh? No well come up with something better for when someone screws up Welsh translations. I read this on Gizmodo. It’s also on the BBC. One of the many sites I routinely read. Apparently someone was making a road sign that had to have both English and Welsh on it. Well what do you do if you don’t know Welsh? Why you email someone that does Welsh translations of course. And that’s what they did in this case only the translator was out of the office and put an auto reply “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated” in Welsh back to the city. Guess what got put up on the sign. Yup, you guessed it. Ok, now my take on it. If you work as a translator, and seeing as this is Wales you probably mainly do English/Welsh translations. If you’re out of the office and use an auto reply like this maybe, I don’t know, put it up in more than one language. The translator was asking for it but the city isn’t in the clear either. Hey, here’s an idea double check things especially when, you know, the email doesn’t haven’t anything in it other than some stuff you can’t understand. I mean can you even imagine what would happen if this guy was quiting and send back a disgruntled message in Welsh. The sign could have read something along the lines of “I Fucking hate you and all of your stupid requests. I hope you die. I quit.” What would they have done then?

I think this is the first time I’ve actually seen Welsh. Honestly looking at this sign I can’t say that I recognize it as a language. It just looks like gibberish to me. I can look at Russian, French and whatever words and see that they are words but there isn’t any point in time that I can say looking at things like swyddfa and not think that someone has spilled soda on their keyboard. No offense Wales.

Here’s my review of Fallout 3 so far. I like it. It’s pretty lengthy so if you really want to read it take a look after the jump. (more…)

Bah, everyday I see things that make me sick of religion more and more. While I am a strong atheist there are areas where I can see it does good. Mostly, in my opinion, on a personal level and only if it stays at that level. With the right direction the larger charities and help programs sponsored by religious organizations can do good. Unfortunately a lot of their donations come from stuck up people who don’t really care about what those programs stand for or the people that benefit. They are just trying to buy themselves into their heaven. As shown here they will rather take money from those who care only for making themselves look better than anyone they are only too eager to slap an unsavory label on. In this case it’s Dungeons and dragons. They turned down 17,000 dollars raised at GenCon because it was sullied by the sales of D&D material. This charity only happens to be the founder of D&D Gary Gygax’s favorite charity. What an insult. Now I can understand charities turning down money for any number of reasons, strings attached, accepting money from the sale of blood diamonds for charities helping people in the many conflicts in Africa, you know things that are crazy for them to accept or present a conflict of interest. The sale of “evil” D&D material isn’t one of them especially when you’ve accepted money from the creator many times before. As far as I’m concerned they’re just being shallow. Please keep in mind that I do not support any laws regulating them to force them to accept money in cases like this. They should be free to deny whoever they want, just as I should be free to call them self-righteous bastards who are out of touch with the world.