{"id":119648,"date":"2014-02-05T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119648"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:00:50","slug":"language-policy-failure-reserved-for-pregnant-ladies-translated-as-reserved-for-pregnant-dogs-on-govt-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/language-policy-failure-reserved-for-pregnant-ladies-translated-as-reserved-for-pregnant-dogs-on-govt-signage\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Policy Failure: Reserved For Pregnant Ladies Translated As Reserved For Pregnant Dogs On Govt. Signage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The glaring inaccuracies on signboards that include the Tamil Language, at several Government buildings and state run buses were deeply insulting to the Tamil people, experts have pointed out, after the signage on a bus that should have read &#8220;Reserved for Pregnant Mothers &#8221; was translated into Tamil as &#8220;Reserved for Pregnant Dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sinhala\/sri_lanka\/2014\/02\/140204_lanka_tamil_mistranslations.shtml\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BBC Sinhala<\/span><\/a> reports that Minister of National Languages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vasudeva+Nanayakkara&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vasudeva Nanayakkara<\/span><\/a> has sought an apology from the Tamil people of Sri Lanka for the inadvertent mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the inaccuracies were due to improper translations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tamil-Sinhala-Translation-errors-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119651\" alt=\"Tamil Sinhala Translation errors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tamil-Sinhala-Translation-errors-.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tamil-Sinhala-Translation-errors-.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Tamil-Sinhala-Translation-errors--300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy Veerakesari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":119651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Language Policy Failure: Reserved For Pregnant Ladies Translated As Reserved For Pregnant Dogs On Govt. 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