What, exactly, is Facebook trying to tell me?



  • I just recieved a multilingual e-mail from Facebook.

     

    I think I see four distinct languages, non of which I actually speak.



  • I see at least:

    -Buddhistisch: German or Yiddisch

    -Paramètres de la campagne: French 

     -Debes escoger... : Spanish

    -Du er blevet... : Dutch? Afrikaans?

    -Hodnocení: Turkish?

    Going for broke, were they?



  • @Adriano said:

    -Du er blevet... : Dutch? Afrikaans?

    From a quick Google search, that appears to be Danish.

    -Hodnocení: Turkish?

    Given all the .cz domains that come up in a search for that, I'd guess it's Czech.

    And "hallitus/armeija" appears to be Finnish.

    ...Seriously, how in the world did that happen?



  • Thousands of years from now, archeologists will use this WTF as the new Rosetta Stone. 



  • In answer to the topic question: It is tellling you that Daniel Jackson wants to be your friend. 



  • Oh, and even more bizarre... to actually translate what the lines mean, as far as I can figure out with various dictionaries scattered about the web:

    Buddhist - Mahayana

    Campaign Parameters

    You must choose a star rating
    http://www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php

    Rating
    Government/Military

    ___
    You have been poked by:
    http://www.facebook.com/...

    Seems like Facebook really got their strings tangled up!



  • Reminds me of YouTube: They send comment notifications in the language of the commentator. From my inbox:     
    New comment on ...,   Nieuwe reactie bij ..,    Nuovo commento su ..., ... 已訂閱了您的影片, ...さんがあなたの動画をチャンネル登録しました etcetera.



  • @codeman38 said:

    Oh, and even more bizarre... to actually translate what the lines mean, as far as I can figure out with various dictionaries scattered about the web:

    Buddhist - Mahayana

    Campaign Parameters

    You must choose a star rating
    http://www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php

    Rating
    Government/Military

    ___
    You have been poked by:
    http://www.facebook.com/...

     

    Seems like Facebook really got their strings tangled up!

     

    Secret cryptic military email? :P



  • Its probably also worth asking... do those login links actually go to facebook?  Phishers aren't really known for their linguistic skills. 



  • You might want to check the mail headers for any suspicious fields. "From:" field forgery is as simple as a quadratic equation. With integer coefficients.



  • Maybe it is to rank the introduction of a new version of Esperanto, but then Scandipean? (Scandinavian-European)



  • @archivator said:

    You might want to check the mail headers for any suspicious fields. "From:" field forgery is as simple as a quadratic equation. With integer coefficients.
     

    You know, that was my first thought, but as both of those links actually _do_ point to facebook, and as there's nothing else in there, it would be rather pointless... plus, some spammer would have his languages mixed up.



  • (Argh, edit timeout expired, sorry for the double post) In any case, it came from "facebookmail.com", which seems to be where all of facebooks mail comes from, so I suppose it's legit.

    I'd love to know _what_ exatly went wrong there to jumble text up like that... 



  • You have been poked by:
    http://www.facebook.com/...

    There's something almost pornographic about that ...

     


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