# I also received a weird email (not a scam, just weird) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315 "2001-10-24T14:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/1 "2001-10-24T14:51:39Z")
The other thread started on this board made me remember an anonymous email I received several years ago,it looks like gibbierish and I could never figure out what (if anything) it meant. So, if anyone wants to give this thing a read(translate?) I’d be interested in your opinion. Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: “Rudy Bagadiong” \<[rbagadiong@yahoo.com](mailto:rbagadiong@yahoo.com)\> Subject: iyo batid na dear \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* thanks pala sa message mo sa totoo lang si osang ang paborito ko. Sa ngayon naglalaro pa rin ako ng basketball diyan sa plaza rizal tuwing sabado at linggo.Bawas inom na rin tayo - high blood! Sa ngayon iyan lang muna. Magkita na lang tayo sa susunod na linggo. your friend, rudy ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/2 "2001-10-24T15:09:47Z")
I Googled the subject line “iyo batid na,” and based on that it seems like your message is in Tagalog, a language spoken in the Philippines. Probably someone will come along who actually _knows_ something about Tagalog, so I shall bow out now. ---
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/3 "2001-10-24T15:33:46Z")
Huh, would you look at that? I never thought it might be an actual language… Now if I could just find a translator… ---
**Author:** ![NevarMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@NevarMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NevarMore)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/4 "2001-10-24T15:43:29Z")
i tried babelfish for ya, doesnt have tagalog or any related language group. but its also possible that the message was in english but got eaten somewhere along the line between it being typed and you recieving it. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/5 "2001-10-24T16:08:03Z")
I tried translating it here: [http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran](http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran) > [@](#): > > Subject: Yours greeting [na] > > [thanks] spade toward [message] your toward real [lang] [si] [osang] the favorite [ko]. Toward now [naglalaro] yet also me of [basketball] there toward [plaza] [rizal] [tuwing] Saturday and linggo. Bawas [inom] [na] also we [high] [blood]! Toward now it [lang] [muna]. [Magkita] [na] [lang] we toward [susunod] [na] week. Hmmm…I can follow it up through the greeting, after which it doesn’t make a goddamn bit of sense. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/6 "2001-10-24T16:32:08Z")
Yes, this is Tagalog. Here’s as near an idiomatic translation as I can make it, punctuation and all: > [@](#): > > thanks by the way for your message the truth is osang is my favorite. I’m still playing basketball there at plaza rizal every saturday and sunday. We drink less now - high blood [pressure]! That’s all for now. See you next sunday [week?]. ---
**Author:** ![Enore\_Tsotset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Enore\_Tsotset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enore_Tsotset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-also-received-a-weird-email-not-a-scam-just-weird/89315/7 "2001-10-24T16:45:04Z")
Well, I guess that takes care of that. And here I thought it would be something more intersesting than a mis-addressed personal email. ::shrugs:: Thanks for the help!