{"id":439,"date":"2007-01-22T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T19:06:50","slug":"lost-in-translation-series-happy-new-jear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2007\/lost-in-translation-series-happy-new-jear\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Translation Series: &#8220;Happy New Jear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/HappyNewJear.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/HappyNewJear.html','popup','width=604,height=453,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/HappyNewJear-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" alt=\"Happy New Jear\" title=\"'Happy New Jear!' Copyright 2007 Josef N Patoprsty. Used with permission.\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"25\" \/><\/a>Ahhhh, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wienerlinien.at\/wl\/wlinien\/jsp\/home\/guestHome.jsp\">Wiener Linien<\/a>&#8230; Perpetrators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newkai.com\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?tag=Wiener%20Linien&#038;blog_id=1\">two<\/a> out of the three sightings involved in my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/signage\/lost_in_transla\/\">Lost in Translation<\/a>&#8221; series so far. Here&#8217;s the third, and possibly worst one! &#8220;Happy New Jear&#8221;!? Everyone knows this&#8230; Come on! You could have given all eight million plus Austrians a multiple choice quiz on this one and I bet you at least six million would have done a better job than the operators of the Wiener Linien&#8217;s departure monitors!<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not more to say about this one&#8230; Simply enjoy!<br \/>\nOh wait&#8230; There is one more thing to note&#8230; The Wiener Linien have over 8,000 employees, and, together with its parent organization, Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG, there are over 14,000 employees. Yep, it&#8217;s quite an embarrassment that they don&#8217;t have a qualified English language proofreader!<br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><b>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josefnpat.com\">Josef N Patoprsty<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhhh, the Wiener Linien&#8230; Perpetrators of two out of the three sightings involved in my &#8220;Lost in Translation&#8221; series so far. Here&#8217;s the third, and possibly worst one! &#8220;Happy New Jear&#8221;!? Everyone knows this&#8230; Come on! You could have given all eight million plus Austrians a multiple choice quiz on this one and I bet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[258,284,285,372,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}