The History Of The First Station The original train station in Jerusalem included a two-story building with two side wings of one floor, a mechanism for changing the direction of the train, a shelter and a large water tank. The archi...

If you're referring to the text on their website, the English there is riddled with errors, my favorite being "they filled the water in Qatar" (apparently referring to the Hebrew word for the train engine, "qatār")
www.firststation.co.il/en/the-histo...

Someone probably copied and pasted without giving it a second thought

I'll definitely have to check 😅

The English rendition of the names on these signs is inconsistent - sometimes it's the traditional version known in English (e.g., Moses) and other times it will be a direct transliteration of the Hebrew (Moshe)

Definitely cringeworthy. A perfect example, I think, of why there needs to be a human language expert in the text processing loop

Explanatory text from the First Station in Jerusalem, entitled "The Railway that Changed Jerusalem"

Concluding paragraph of the translation, declaring it a "refined, museum-level Hebrew translation"

Another good one, this time from the First Station in Jerusalem: Check out the English text from the visitor center poster. Would you say it's a museum-level translation? Seriously, would you actually come out and say it??
#LinguisticLandscape #translation_fails #LLM_fails

Apparently that would have been too great an effort 🤷‍♂️

Yes, that appears to be the source of the error, taking the last word of the Hebrew explanation, as pointed out by @bnuyaminim.bsky.social above

No, the Arabic is written right to left as it should be, it's just a translation of the wrong name...

Aha! I was having trouble figuring out the logic, good catch

Yes, they revamped the entire sign system recently (replacing and correcting some signs that had a few of my favorite bloopers), but I guess new signs come with new mistakes

Trilingual "Tsidkiyahu" street sign - Hebrew and English read "Tsidkiyahu" while Arabic reads "Yehuda"

I guess once you put up so many municipal street signs in Jerusalem, a few mistakes are inevitable, but this one goes a bit too far (Hebrew and English: Tsidkiyahu; Arabic: Yehuda??)
#LinguisticLandscape #Linguistics #translation_fails

Interesting! Thanks

Modern Hebrew keeps it simple, with the same word ("mitbaḥ") serving for both kitchen and cuisine

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Always interesting, this time Elon Gilad tackles the word "ashkara" and its journey from Persian through Arabic to modern Hebrew, and the variations in meaning from "clearly, obviously," to "totally, surprisingly"
www.instagram.com/reel/DUlB9e4...
#Linguistics #Langsky

"I was embraced" roadside art in Hebrew, pink letters on a light blue background, with a peaceful backdrop of trees and rocks

One-word roadside art in Hebrew: "ḥubaqti" = I was embraced. Spotted in the Jerusalem hills
#LinguisticLandscape

So near and yet so far

Thanks for the reply! As always, the Spain/Latin America variations are fascinating, and should be addressed more in language learning

Thanks!

Thanks for confirming!

Puzzle pieces spread out on the floor Image by Mike Sweeney, Pixabay

Delighted to learn that a puzzle or jigsaw is known in Spanish as "rompecabezas," or head-breaker. If this is indeed in usage (not just in DuoLingo), I find it both excellent and easily memorable
#Langsky #Spanish

Personally, I like the term "AI skeptic," as it implies a deep suspicion of the technology and its impact, though not a full commitment to abstinence

You know what they say, no one sits in their retirement years and muses, "You know, I really should have spent more time at the office"

I sent my 13-yo a 6-7 joke and added, "I hope I didn't kill the meme." He answered drily, "it's already dead"

As I have noted in the past, there's a picturesque image in Talmudic #Aramaic: "istra belagina kish kish karya," a coin in an empty jar makes a lot of noise.
The classic Hebrew phrase for "much ado about nothing" has a nice rhyme: "mehuma raba `al lo meuma" (or "`al lo davar", but no rhyme there)

Thanks for this. I recently encountered the term "cognitive offloading" and find that it encapsulates perfectly the sense that we're being pushed to lose valuable skills by outsourcing them to a machine

Rabinovich Park, perhaps. Or Rabinovitch. Even Rabinowitz. But "Rabinoviz" is a new one for me... The park, a Jerusalem landmark, is also known as the "Mifletzet" (Monster) Park, after Niki de St. Phalle's "Golem" sculpture/triple slide
#LinguisticLandscape #transliteration_fails #StreetArt

I personally blame the Brothers Grimm for starting this trend (dislike Hansel and Gretel to this day), but there are other classics I tried to steer clear of when my kids were small, such as Babar and Bambi

Interesting! Thanks for sharing

A quick etymology dive indicates that it's no coincidence that Yiddish "tsibile" (and German zwiebel) sound similar to Spanish cebolla, as all appear to derive from Latin cēpulla