Once again, a nonsense “translation” in a publically funded web-app.

“Bwyd anifeiliaid” is literally “animal food”, and it took me a minute to work out why this was relevant on a website about active travel. Since there’s no obvious way to switch interface languages I can’t be sure, but this might be a machine translation of “browsing”.

#TransportForWales #TrafnidiaethCymru https://toot.wales/@nic/114262083452959672

Nic Dafis (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Unwaith eto, cyfieithiad anghywir ar app gan gorff cyhoeddus. Dw i’n cymryd mai “browse actions” neu rywbeth oedd y Saesneg gwreiddiol? #TrawsCymru

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Found the language switch thing, the English text is “Activity Feed” - don’t #TransportForWales have a single Welsh speaker that could have told them that the translation is nonsense?

I’m pissing in the wind here, obviously, but this isn’t some funny “Scymraeg” scenario, this is public money being spent on a bilingual website that only works in English.

More absolute nonsense on the #TransportForWales site. “Swyddi diweddaraf” means “Latest jobs”, and “Weld yr holl” is something like “See the all”, but with an unnecessary mutation for some reason.
This isn’t the first time #TransportForWales have messed up on bilingualism. A recent update on their TrawsCymru bus app informed users of the T5 Haverfordwest to Aberystwyth services that disruptions were being caused by roadworks in Newport, which was true, except the Welsh language version had “Casnewydd” (Newport, Gwent) rather than “Trefdraeth” (Newport, Pembs).
I’ve tattled on #TransportForWales to the Welsh Language Commissioner. As a publicly funded body, they have a legal obligation to use Welsh and English on an equal footing — which they usually do, fair play — but there seems to be very little oversight, and since none of these bodies (including the Comisiynydd’s office) have left the oligarch-verse, email is the only way to contact them.
Just received a response from the Commissioner’s office, asking for URLs of the pages I was complaining about, because apparently Google is blocked in Cardiff.
@nic Now that would be a good thing. But it also means they can't google "qwant"