# what does this gibberish mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 7, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848 "2003-11-07T07:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_duke\_69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@the\_duke\_69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_duke_69)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/1 "2003-11-07T07:04:01Z")
Ok a good friend sent me an email and it contained the fallowing…with the tag line of its all greek to me. Åßìáé ôüóï áîéüðéóôïò üðùò ìå èÝëåôå ãéá íá åßóôå. Åßìáé ðéü áñãüò áðü óêåöôÞêáôå üôé öáíôÜæïìáé åðßóçò. ÁðïêñõðôïãñÜöçóá ôåëéêÜ ôï ìÞíõìÜ óáò. Ìå óõã÷ùñÞóôå. Ðáßñíåé Ýíáí ìáêñï÷ñüíéï ÷ñüíï êÜíïíôáò ôï ìå ôï ÷Ýñé. Ðüóï êáéñü ðïëý Ýêáíå äéêþí óáò ðáßñíåé; Ðñïóðáèþ áêñéâþò íá óáò ðù åãþ èÝëù íá åßìáé ößëïé. Ðñïóðáèþ íá âÜëù åìðñüò ôçí ðñïóðÜèåéá. Öáßíåôáé áêñéâþò üðùò áìÝóùò áõôüí üëç ç ðñïóðÜèåéÜ ìïõ óðáôáëéÝôáé åíôåëþò. Ìå åíçìåñþóôå åÜí åßíáé. Ìðïñþ íá ÷åéñéóôþ áõôïý. Äåí èá åßíáé êáëü, áëëÜ ìðïñþ íá ôï ÷åéñéóôþ. Åßìáé áêñéâþò êïõñáóìÝíïõ ôçò ðÜëçò ãéá êÜôé åÜí äåí õðÜñ÷åé ôßðïôá ãéá íá ðáëåøåé åêåß ãéá. Ðéü ðñüóöáôåò çìÝñåò so My question is it just rubbish or is there something there? ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/2 "2003-11-07T08:08:13Z")
Looks like UNICODE or UTF8 to me. Try copying from the original e-mail and pasting it into Microsoft Word - Word might auto-detect it for you. If not, try “paste special” and pick different options to see if anything emerges. ---
**Author:** ![Lauri\_Itakannas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lauri\_Itakannas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lauri_Itakannas)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/3 "2003-11-07T08:10:13Z")
It seems you have a literal-minded friend - all Greek it is. Don’t know enough Greek to say what it might be about, though, or if it’s just Greek nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/4 "2003-11-07T08:17:52Z")
Cheesy [machine translation](http://www.worldlingo.com/wl/Translate): > [@](#): > > I am so much reliable as me you want in order to you are. I am slower than you thought that I imagine also. Apokryptogra’fisa finally your message. Me you forgive. It takes a long-lasting time making him with the hand. How much time a lot it made trials you it takes? I precisely try to you to say i I want to be friends. I try to put front the effort. Appears precisely as immediately this all my effort is wasted completely. Me you inform if they are. I can handle this. It will not be good, but I can him handle. I am precisely tired the fight for something if does not exist nothing in order to it fights there for. More recent days. Seem to be some sense in it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/5 "2003-11-07T13:00:00Z")
Just in case you haven’t done so - to see it properly on this SDMB page, go to View -\> Encoding -\> Greek (ISO) (on my machine, this is under “More…” on the menu) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/6 "2003-11-07T13:30:03Z")
I guess [symbol]Apokruptograjhsa[/symbol] would mean something like ‘decrypted’. ---
**Author:** ![jtull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jtull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtull)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-gibberish-mean/211848/7 "2003-11-07T14:17:12Z")
Hmm… The actual text is greek, but it absolutely makes no sense. It feels like somebody wrote something in english, and then passed through a english-to-greek web translator… It’s exactly like the garbage (sense-wise) these things produce. If I try to retranslate it word for word in english, I can see sense shining through. It wasn’t written in greek originally, though. I have no time to properly translate it right now, but it seems that the text Larry Mudd supplies comes pretty close. Apokryptographisa means “decrypted”, yes.