A few years ago, the city of Swansea in Wales put up a new road sign. Now, the Welsh government wants to promote the Welsh language, so that it survives, and so things like road signs are required to be bilingual. But only about a quarter of the population actually speaks Welsh. And so it’s typical for a local government to have an in-house translator; most people working in the road-sign department don’t actually speak both languages, so they send the text off to be translated.

Anyway, the city needed to put up a sign that read, “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.” So, the road-sign office sent an email off to the translation office and asked for a Welsh translation. And an email came right with two sentences of Welsh. So they printed the sign with the English on top and the Welsh on the bottom, and installed it on the road.

Later that week, photos started appearing on social media with laughing emojis.

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