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Bladder warning for welsh cyclists

Welsh-speaking cyclists have been left baffled - and possibly concerned for their health - after a mix-up with a road sign. icwales.co.uk reports that a temporary sign, placed in front of the roadworks between Penarth and Cardiff correctly says ‘cyclists dismount’ in English, but ‘llid y bledren dymchwelyd’ in Welsh, which roughly translates as ’bladder disease has returned.’Owain Sgiv, an officer for the Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, commented: “‘Cyclists dismount’ is an awkward sentence to translate as there is no Welsh word for dismount. “But the correct translation would be something like ‘dim beicio’, which means literally ‘no cycling’, or ‘man disgyn i feicwyr’, which means ‘fall-off area for cyclists’. “This is a real peach. Road signs are mistranslated on an enormously regular basis, usually because people use online translators. But we don’t often get them quite as insane as this.”

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