What, exactly, is Facebook trying to tell me?
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I just recieved a multilingual e-mail from Facebook.
I think I see four distinct languages, non of which I actually speak.
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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?
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@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?
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Thousands of years from now, archeologists will use this WTF as the new Rosetta Stone.
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In answer to the topic question: It is tellling you that Daniel Jackson wants to be your friend.
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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.phpRating
Government/Military___
You have been poked by:
http://www.facebook.com/...Seems like Facebook really got their strings tangled up!
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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.
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@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.phpRating
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
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Its probably also worth asking... do those login links actually go to facebook? Phishers aren't really known for their linguistic skills.
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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.
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Maybe it is to rank the introduction of a new version of Esperanto, but then Scandipean? (Scandinavian-European)
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@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.
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(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...
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You have been poked by:
http://www.facebook.com/...There's something almost pornographic about that ...