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There is a blog dedicated to bad Hebrew tattoos. I had apparently neglected it for a long time, because in a post from quite some time ago, they shared this gem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

$\"horrid$ <\/p>\n

The person apparently wanted to profess their love for someone, and so decided to do so in Hebrew using Babylon translation software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have ever used automated translation software, you can already tell this is going to be bad.<\/p>\n

But what they ended up with is actually even funnier than the standard, slightly ungrammatical or jumbled automated translation.<\/p>\n

Somehow, they ended up copying the words \u201cBabylon is the world\u2019s leading dictionary and translation software\u201d in Hebrew, and that\u2019s what they gave the tattoo artist!<\/p>\n

Babylon translation software got some free walking advertising for their free software. But it isn\u2019t a very good commercial for their product\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"