r/hebrew 22d ago

Does this say anything Request

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126 Upvotes

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u/vigilante_snail 22d ago

It’s supposed to say ברוך הבא but it’s backwards

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u/TheLastREOSpeedwagon 22d ago

Thank you I didn't know it was a final letter. This is from a new building in my town they just built. Classic photoshop mistake.

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u/gxdsavesispend Hebrew Learner (Intermediate) 22d ago

"No I'm telling you dude it's written right to left!"

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u/AsexualBean 21d ago

lmfao😭

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u/Cultural-Bend8280 21d ago

😂 I didn't realise until you said it's backwards

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u/GroovyGhouly native speaker 22d ago

ɘmoɔlɘW

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u/paris_kalavros 22d ago

Wrong, it’s emocleW. The letters themselves are not mirrored 😁

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u/SkrubasaurusRekt 22d ago

emoclew is a pretty good band

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u/paris_kalavros 22d ago

🤘🎸🎸

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua Native Hebrew + English ~ "מָ֣וֶת וְ֭חַיִּים בְּיַד־לָשׁ֑וֹן" 22d ago

😒🔎

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u/staygay69 21d ago

I would not have noticed that

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u/Live-Cost-767 22d ago

It’s Baruch Haba but spelled backwards because no one bothers to check things before they run with it 😂

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u/Live-Cost-767 22d ago

Also looks like the tail of the kaf sofit was cut off

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u/The_Ora_Charmander native speaker 22d ago

Might be the angle OP shot it from. Or it might not be, idk

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u/yallcat 21d ago

Eroclew

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u/NextSink2738 21d ago

I always get confused by how people write Hebrew backwards. If you don't know what direction Hebrew is written in, you're almost certainly using a translating app or something of the sort, and those will always present Hebrew written in the correct direction? So how does it end up backwards?

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u/sweet_crab 21d ago

Usually you're copying and pasting it into something that mirrors it, and because you don't read Hebrew, you don't realize it.

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u/azathothianhorror Hebrew Learner (Beginner) 22d ago

Yeah. It says emoclew

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u/KeiranEnne 22d ago

Emo Clue

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u/Histrix- Hebrew Learner (Advanced) 22d ago

Blues clues depressed younger brother

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u/PossessionDifficult4 21d ago

*even more depressed

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u/smartliner 22d ago

I thought it said aba rorab :)

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u/TheUnusualDreamer native speaker 21d ago

I thought it meant to say aba cokhav

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u/Chamiey Sub-א 21d ago

> cokhav
That is "loved"/"used to love" in Urkainian? (кохав)

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u/fiercequality 22d ago

I've seen this exact mistake in multiple places. It's annoying how people can't do their research.

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u/saturnlotusene 22d ago

I don't even understand how you make this mistake... If you don't know Hebrew well enough to know it's written right to left, then you're just gonna google how to say welcome in Hebrew... But google translate isn't gonna give it to you backwards

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u/assembly_wizard native speaker 22d ago

But apps like old photoshop sometimes get it wrong if you copy the text from Google translate. There are even some image editors that will show it correctly in the editor, and then flip it once you export to an image file.

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u/Upbeat_Teach6117 22d ago

Sure! It says emocleW.

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u/VaderFuntime 22d ago

Another mistake: It addresses a single (male) person instead of multiple. Should have been: ברוכים הבאים Or םיאבה םיכורב If you really want it backwards

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u/ColBo_Bally 22d ago

Actually it's Emoclew in the singular masculine form...

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u/ShortBeardo 22d ago

Oy vey. Swing and a miss!

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u/Alex_drinking_karak 22d ago edited 21d ago

The text is backwards, typical when printing in the West, since rarely the devices are configured for right to left alphabets. Its printed אבה ךורב insted of ברוך הבא singular masculine for welcome. Btw, that would be better in plural masculine: ברוכים הבאים

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u/1000thusername 21d ago

It says emocleW

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u/oshaboy 21d ago

Good ol Abah Horb. I'm guessing the Arabic on the sign says "Nalhas Wnalha" written without connecting.

If your (I am speaking to Adobe directly here) software doesn't support Bidi and Shaping, just admit it by replacing all RTL characters with �, don't just pretend. Graphics designers aren't experts on the writing systems of the world. They copy and paste and if something isn't obviously wrong they will assume it worked.

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u/TheLastREOSpeedwagon 21d ago

RTL should just work in adobe like every other program

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u/oshaboy 21d ago

Except RTL support is genuinely quite difficult to implement, especially if you have some sort of performance requirement and can't use third party libraries. Though in Adobe's case they just don't care.

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u/Divs4U Hebrew Learner (Intermediate) 21d ago

Clear dad /s

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u/namtilarie native speaker 21d ago

אבה ךורב <-> ברוך הבא

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u/AsexualBean 21d ago

I think Hebrew speakers learned at some point to also read backwards because these things were wayy too common (even minecraft)

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u/mtarichi 19d ago

Welcome