Free Beer!

ziggy on 2002-12-04T21:29:59

I'm offering a free beer[1] to the first person who can identify[2] the language[3] used in this spam:

Subject: Bukti sudah ada.
   
Assalamualaikum ...!
   
   
Saya tidak pasti siapakah yang membaca email ini oleh itu terlebih dahulu saya 
ingin memohon ampun dan maaf sekiranya isi kandungan email ini atau
kehadirannya tidak seperti yang dijangkakan.
  
Terima kasih sekali lagi kerana email saya diberi perhatian. Saya juga berharap
email ini dibaca oleh Pengarah, Pengurus, Pegawai tinggi, Executive, Kakitangan
Kerajaan atau Swasta, Pekerja Am, Pegawai keselamatan, Buruh, Guru, Pelajar,
Penganggur, atau sesiapa sahaja ini kerana kemunkinan tuan? dan puan? berhajat 
membaca dan mengetahuinya sebelum ini, begitulah harapan saya. Maka izinkan    
saya .......

[continues]

Update: According to the headers, this isn't spam; it's an autoresponder. HTH!

[1] That'll be my choice of free beer. :-)

[2] In the event of a tie, the beer will go to the first person to translate this spam.

[3] I checked. It's not Klingon. ;-)

Malaysian

rafael on 2002-12-04T21:51:16

That would be malaysian. I googled for Bukti sudah ada and got a site in domain .gov.my. Amusingly, I got the same spam a few days ago. Do you send beer by mail ?

Re:Malaysian

rafael on 2002-12-04T21:55:55
(duh, hit submit instead of preview) -- Additional proof : the official religion of Malaysia is Islam, and the first word of the mail is transcribed from arab (Assalamualaikum).
Re:Malaysian

ziggy on 2002-12-04T22:02:04

Do you send beer by mail ?
No. Do you attend Perl events in North America? :-)

Malay

TorgoX on 2002-12-06T02:49:59

I tried translating it, but I don't quite understand how to remove Malay's verb prefixes yet, so I get basically everything but the verbs.

"Bukti sudah ada" means "proof/evidence completed there-is". I assume that that means something like "Proof positive!"

The first paragraph is something about "Hi and stuff, I sure hope this email isn't bothering you, I'm very sorry if it does".

Here's what I have so far:

Subject: Bukti sudah ada. Subject: Proof positive Assalamualaikum ...! Hi and stuff! Saya tidak pasti siapakah yang membaca email ini oleh itu terlebih I not surely ? which ? email this by that more dahulu saya ingin memohon ampun dan maaf sekiranya isi kandungan email before I want ? pardon and forgiveness ? this ? email ini atau kehadirannya tidak seperti yang dijangkakan. this or ? not as/like which ? . Terima kasih sekali lagi kerana email saya diberi perhatian. Saya juga thank you once moreover because this I ? ? I also berharap email ini dibaca oleh Pengarah, Pengurus, Pegawai tinggi, ? email this ? by ? ? high official, Executive, Kakitangan Kerajaan atau Swasta, Pekerja Am , Pegawai executive, ? ? or ? , work general , official keselamatan, Buruh, Guru, Pelajar, Penganggur, atau sesiapa sahaja ini safety , laborer, teacher, student ? or ? only this kerana kemunkinan tuan? dan puan? berhajat membaca dan mengetahuinya because ? sir and lady? ? ? or ? sebelum ini, begitulah harapan saya. Maka izinkan saya ....... before this, ? ? me. If allow me .......

Moral of the story: verbs are important!