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winterbadger) wrote2006-09-20 01:24 pm
winterbadger) wrote2006-09-20 01:24 pm
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Jerusalem--there's no such city!
Jerusalem: Lost in Translation
Tourism officials in Israel did little to sell the city of Jerusalem as a must-see for visitors when a brochure suggested it did not exist.
The sightseeing pamphlet was translated from Hebrew and should have read: "Jerusalem - there's no city like it!".
But instead the slogan in English read: "Jerusalem - there's no such city!", reported the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5364192.stm
cross-posted to cranky_editors
Tourism officials in Israel did little to sell the city of Jerusalem as a must-see for visitors when a brochure suggested it did not exist.
The sightseeing pamphlet was translated from Hebrew and should have read: "Jerusalem - there's no city like it!".
But instead the slogan in English read: "Jerusalem - there's no such city!", reported the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5364192.stm
cross-posted to cranky_editors