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by Adverblessly 998 days ago
Some time ago I encountered an imported vending machine here in Israel. It had a touch screen with a prompt in Hebrew to interact with it that:

  1. Had reverse letter ordering (ltr instead of rtl)
  2. Had reverse word ordering (ltr instead of rtl)
  3. Had no spaces between words
  4. Broke words across line boundaries
  5. Made sense semantically (sort of), but didn't make sense in context
So imagine seeing the following interaction prompt on a vending machine:

   kildlouwi
  eviecerote
Took quite a while to decipher!
2 comments

Spoiler: it's one of these

Obfuscated intentionally

Dog park and the more Receive your product Stolen from the following To receive I would like Tire on the other hand Dagger I am not parent Duck to the same role