>I could forgive that if I'd said "Ehud" but I don't see how Barak is anything like Olmert. To be fair, i used McCain's surname but Obama's given name, and I could have excused your mistaking him for the president of Egypt (Mubarak, but what would he have been doing in NY at Ground Zero?), but I guess what you've got now is beyond dyslexia

There's a whole school of slang back home, which finds meaning in foreign words by... well, meaning. Of their parts. So "thank you very much" was taken for "tenk juri veliku macku" (a tank chases a big cat)... but that was kiddie stuff 50 years ago. Only 15 years ago, Mubarak was translated as a stable - a moo barrack.