Error on French-language posters in downtown Ottawa turning heads
Error on French-language posters in downtown Ottawa turning heads
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Error on French-language posters in downtown Ottawa turning heads
An apparent translation error on posters promoting a City of Ottawa initiative is turning some heads in downtown Ottawa, swapping one French word for another with a very different meaning.
Several social media users pointed out a typo on the French-language signs promoting the initiative that read “Placettes Pubiques,” missing the letter “L” in “Publiques.”
It’s the equivalent of missing the same letter in the word “public” in English.
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