BERLIN (Reuters) – German tourism officials in the city of Dusseldorf are reprinting about 30,000 visitors' booklets promoting the Eurovision Song Contest on May 10 to correct embarrassing mistakes.
The booklets incorrectly list an event as "Gay's day of action" instead of "Schools' day of action," a city tourism board spokesman said on Friday.
The mistakes have generated headlines across the country since it was first reported on Wednesday. The board is putting correction stickers over the event listing in the 65,000 German booklets already printed.
The mistake was made first in German, in which the words for school and gay are almost identical, and then was translated into English.
The annual Eurovision Song Contest, which is one of the longest running television shows in the world, has traditionally had a strong following in gay communities. The tourism office said the booklet contains several suggestions of gay-friendly entertainment in the city.
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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The mind boggles...MajGenl.Meade wrote:
The mistake was made first in German, in which the words for school and gay are almost identical, and then was translated into English.
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