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Translation error sees ASDA supermarket mistakenly offer free alcohol to customers

The sign was supposed to guide shoppers to Credit: Wales News Service A translation blunder at a supermarket caused it to accidentally promise free alcohol to customers. The sign was supposed to guide shoppers to “alcohol-free beer” at the Asda supermarket in Cwmbran. But translators on the beer aisle wrote “alcohol am ddim” – meaning alcohol […]

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