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I bought a loaf of sliced white bread. Very good bread it is, but nothing out of the ordinary. Yet there are indications of its being marketed in 60 countries. At any rate, this is how many flags there are on the wrapping.

Bread, bread, bread

Now in Hebrew ‘bread’ is לחם leħem (as in בית-לחם bêt-leħem Bethlehem ‘House of Bread’). And indeed you can see the letters לl–חħ–םm beneath the Israeli flag. In this order, left to right.

It looks as though the word was first written in a right-to-left–aware word processor, then fed into an older version of the software that lacked such awareness.

According to the dictionary, מחל maħal means ‘sickness’ in Hebrew.

How does the bread sell in Israel, I wonder?


Update: To the company's credit be it said, they've corrected the Hebrew inscription (though not the other errors).

Date: 13 Nov 2004 12:22 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
It should say Arán for Ireland and Bara for Wales, of course.

Corrigenda

Date: 13 Nov 2004 16:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iad.livejournal.com
(Oh, welcome, Michael!) Yes, and it should say ‘Ħobz’ for Malta, and England has a flag that isn't the Union Jack. Among the other 40 flags that I've spared you here there was a Serbian-and-Montenegrin one, with the caption ‘Hleb’ (not ‘Хлеб’), and a Croatian one, with the same caption ‘Hleb’ (not ‘Kruh’).

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Date: 14 Nov 2004 21:09 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seqram.livejournal.com
What it needs is one of these...

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Date: 15 May 2016 15:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stop-by.livejournal.com
спасибо! мне тогда до ЖЖ оставалось пять скорбных лет... ))

Date: 16 May 2016 00:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahi.livejournal.com
מחל - это традиционное предвыборное обозначение ныне правящей партии Ликуд, сокращение от "национальный лагерь", מחנה לאומי

Date: 23 May 2016 22:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iad.livejournal.com
Только мем там, я чай, не софит.

Date: 24 May 2016 00:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahi.livejournal.com
А софита нигде нет. Он выглядит как квадратик.

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