Not sure how to go about this................................ ??

[Gino]

I'm gonna give the translated sign back to them and make sure it meets their specs after I lay it out. They can let some illiterate truck driver to read it for all I care. Same for the spanish.

They asked if we offered this service and I said not really, but I know a buncha french canadians that could probably read and write in french. He said, let's give it a try.

I will not tackle the spanish.

 

[gnubler]

Not your problem. Don't ever, as in ever, write copy. Including doing translations. Tell the client that this isn't a service you can provide, that you do signs, the client writes the copy. Creating copy is almost guaranteed to bite you in the a$$.

Agreed. The wrong accent mark or minor typo could end up being something profane or comical.

 

[mim]

I can help with the french if needed

 

[RandyDe]

Don't forget Franco-Manitobain, which is probably somewhere in the middle of Parisien and Québécois.

Agreed. St. Vital French sounds a bit different.

 

[JBurton]

Agreed. The wrong accent mark or minor typo could end up being something profane or comical.

That's why I use my phone to copy any given spanish, including the hieroglyphs. Also it does wonders to copy/paste stupid long wifi passwords at airbnb's and such.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

including the hieroglyphs

oh, is that what those things are called?

 

[JBurton]

oh, is that what those things are called?

Yeah, for example:

spells 'Left lane for passing only'

 

[Gino]

What if you're in england ?? Or one of those other countries who drive on the wrong side of the road.......................

 

[JBurton]

What if you're in england ?? Or one of those other countries who drive on the wrong side of the road.......................

Yeah, you'd just mirror it. It's all beside the point, nobody will read/obey the damned signs anyway.

 

[gnubler]

Are hieroglyphs ADA compliant?

 

[Notarealsignguy]

What if you're in england ?? Or one of those other countries who drive on the wrong side of the road.......................

then you turn the sign upside down, duh?

 

[Gino]

Why would you need a road sign to be ADA ?? Oh yeah....... have a nice day.

 

[Humble PM]

then you turn the sign upside down, duh?

Same hemisphere, so don't invert. Reversal all the way for us right pondians (except the Welsh)

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Same hemisphere, so don't invert. Reversal all the way for us right pondians (except the Welsh)

If you turn it backwards, then you'll have a post blocking the middle of your sign.

 

[Humble PM]

I meant flip, god damn it (as in the eagle, or corvids or herons...)

Most of our complex hieroglypical signs need at least two sets of two posts 12" box tube 1" section, welded on the new moon facing east with lots of people dressed in robes (no hats) and some (engineer apporved ivy, set in bedrock concrete to depth of at least New Zealand (where the signs are rotated 180).

 

[SignDesignLady]

Is there a French teacher at your local high school? They might be willing to help out.

 

[JBurton]

(no hats)

This made me chuckle the most.

 

[Humble PM]

This made me chuckle the most.

Who's the short dude.
And the chickem
And the chaps.
And the blonde one

 

[ikarasu]

Welcome to dealing with canada, where everything needs french, and no one speaks it.


We deal with this all the time... Customers "need" the french and ask us to translate it. We usually just send it to a paid translator and make them eat the cost.


We have 6 people in our office who speak French fluently. One from Quebec, one for Mauritius, 2 of them grew up speaking it fluently... Not sure about the other 2. But we have them all a sign with about 20 words to translate, and while all were... Similar, they all had different words / spelling.

When we questioned them on it... Every single one said all 6 signs are technical.correct "but" and then added their own take on it. Which in their defence is true. Apparently a pipeline can be "conduits " or " conduitEs" or some butchered pipeline with weird accents and spellings. One explanation was one is the femenite way to say it....

I'm sure either way would work. But definately get your customer to sign off on a proof, just incase a frenchy complains about it being incorrect and they try to make you eat the cost.

 

[Pauly]

Asking the community for a service when naturally you'd pay a translator for the work?
How much you paying said community for this service?