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06 December 2007

Top Sekret Kode Someone sent me this coded message, and I can't babelfish it back to English:

Ω˜Î±ÏƒÎ©ˆÎ¶ÎµÏ„αΩˆ κατα τηÎ1⁄2 ταπεΩˆÎ1⁄2η Î1⁄4ου υπολοΩ¯Î©ˆÏƒÎ1⁄4ους, keck εχεΩˆ αυτο το παΩˆÏ‡Î1⁄2ΩˆÎ´Î©ˆ συσκευασÎ1⁄4εÎ1⁄2Î

Any ideas?
Well, it looks like it might be a cryptogram, though the spacing is hard to work out. What came with it? Anything? Do you have any reason to think it's a message and not just messed-up machine language?
posted by Miko 06 December | 13:05
Well, it was in the context of us trash talking each other in babelfished Dutch, Chinese, Russian, etc. then reverse translating for hilarious results like "this game my nose hairs withdraw with special tool.[pliers]"

Of course, he could just be messing with me.
posted by craniac 06 December | 13:24
THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!
posted by mudpuppie 06 December | 13:42
I was wondering if it might be one of those older, pre-unicode encodings for Japanese.

I went here and entered the link to this page (http://metachat.org/index.php/2007/12/06/top_sekret_kode). It showed some Japanese characters for some but not all of your message. So maybe, but maybe not.
posted by DarkForest 06 December | 13:51
It says:

Dear craniac, you are a poo head. Ha ha ha!
posted by Specklet 06 December | 13:53
Yeah, this looks like a message that's being displayed in the wrong character encoding (e.g. a Cyrillic encoding). Unfortunately, by pasting it into this ISO-8859-1 HTML page, I reckon a few characters have been munged, making it harder to figure out what encoding it's in. I've tried converting it straight into a few obvious ones, and none of them looks likely.

How did you receive the message? By email? Is there any way you can send us a straight copy of the original text?
posted by chrismear 06 December | 14:09
keck

You're being mocked by Korean gamers. Do not put any money on any Starcraft matches.
posted by cortex 06 December | 18:59
Heh.
posted by craniac 06 December | 19:32
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