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While looking through my spamtrap, I saw the above subject line.

I got as far as the first two letters and thought, “That’s a curious combination of sounds”. Had a look at the sender, and it had a .mn ending.

I guess I got spam in Mongolian. Now that’s a first.

(Fifty points for whoever can translate the subject. I have no idea what it says.)

Date: Sunday, 5 February 2012 14:11 (UTC)
steorra: Restaurant sign that says Palatal (linguistics)
From: [personal profile] steorra
Maybe someone in [livejournal.com profile] linguaphiles would be able to help with translation?

I plugged words and phrases into this dictionary, and most individual words came out as things but I can't tell how they're combining. (For instance, орон сууц appears to be something like 'house/dwelling/apartment', and түрээс appears to be something like 'lease'.) Also, I'm a little uneasy about the fact that everything I plugged into the dictionary appeared to be right there, without needing suffix modifications, when Mongolian is an agglutinative language.

Date: Monday, 6 February 2012 02:15 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kaisa
I've received spam in "Finnish" that looks like someone used a free machine translator to translate something into Finnish, not knowing that usually it gives a very bad result. Maybe your spammer is doing the same thing?

Date: Sunday, 5 February 2012 20:24 (UTC)
pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauamma
I've received spam in Thai (or at least, using the Thai script) recently.

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