Saturday, May 19, 2007

Lost in Translation


My last job kept me up nights thinking about typo´s (which is why I have excused this blog from such scruitiny). On a campaign I was working on, we had a Spanish language handout on its way to print when we discovered a typo that changed the meaning of a sentence from "Measure G will REPAIR our roads" to "Measure G will RAPE our roads." Thankfully it was caught in time and I laugh about it today.


Not so with this sign, which should have read Dangerous, Do Not Swim. It´s positioned next to a 50 foot waterfall that doesn´t look very inviting for a swim and no one seems to have an interest in repairing the sign.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That make since not to swim there since the fall would most likely send you to the hospital.