HUNGRY Ghost Festival was mistranslated as “Hungary Ghost Festival” in a 2002 Singapore Tourism Board guide. This translation gaffe has stuck in Neo Keng Hwee’s mind, so he was quick to respond to a nationwide effort to crowdsource expertise to prevent such errors.
Following the launch of the Citizen Translators project in January, Neo has given feedback on errors he has spotted in brochures.
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