êàê ïðàâèëüíî ñîêðàòèòü áþäæåò íà ðåêëàìó

[chileno]

Maybe it was a plead for help:

"help, can anybody get me out of this bathroom that seems to be locked from the outside?

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by brute

This could become a useful tool if all the repititions were removed, and they were organised alphabetically into a pull down menu. Most accented Roman characters of the European languages are included, but where is the crossed out "O", of Danish and Norwegian? This is essentional if you wish to write to elDanés.

That already exists here for the diacriticals commonly used in Spanish.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

That already exists here for the diacriticals commonly used in Spanish.

I have one question for you David.


What is diacriticals?


I don't understand very well the word.

I'm sorry

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

I have one question for you David.


What is diacriticals?


I don't understand very well the word.

I'm sorry

Diacriticals son los acentos diacríticos, los que se usan para distinguir unas palabras de otras, especialmente en monosílabos:

te - té
de - dé
mi - mí
tu - tú
solo - sólo
etc.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Diacriticals son los acentos diacríticos, los que se usan para distinguir unas palabras de otras, especialmente en monosílabos:

te - té
de - dé
mi - mí
tu - tú
solo - sólo
etc.

In linguistics, a diacritic is any mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. So, every letter in the original post had a diacritic mark.

[Tomisimo]

diacriticals = signos diacríticos

Éstos pueden ser el acento grave o agudo, el diéresis, el circunflejo, la cedilla, la colita, etc.

[irmamar]

Yes, you're right, I was thinking you were talking about diacritical accents

[brute]

Originally Posted by WRDavid

ïðèâåò.ß ðàáîòàþ ìàðêåòîëîãîì â ãîðîäå ðîñòîâ-íà-äîíó . èç-çà êðèçèñà íàì óðåçàëè ôèíàíñèðîâàíèå íà ðåêëàìó, è ïðè ýòîì íóæíî íå ïîòåðÿòü çàêàç÷èêîâ. ×òî äåëàòü - íå çíàþ. ïîñïðàøèâàëà çíàêîìûõ - ñêàçàëè, ÷òî èíòåðíåò ðåêëàìà ëó÷øå âñåãî. ïî íàøåé äåÿòåëüíîñòè â èíòåðíåòå íàøëà ìíîãî ñïðàâî÷íèêîâ. çàðåãèñòðèðîâàëàñü â îäíîì èç íèõ ðîñøèíà. áóäåò ëè îò ýòîãî òîëê? åñëè äà - òî ïîäåëèòåñü ñïèñêîì òàêèõ ñàéòîâ. ìîæåò áûòü êòî-òî åùå ÷åãî-íèáóäü ïîäñêàæåò?

Sorry folks. I think I´ve given the language detector/translater a stroke or a heart attack. I fed it with the above text and it has written absolutely nothing in the last hour

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by brute

Sorry folks. I think I´ve given the language detector/translater a stroke or a heart attack. I fed it with the above text and it has written absolutely nothing in the last hour

[brute]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

For once I'm being serious. I have been devoting some time to thinking about this strange document. I have enlarged the text to make it readable. The characters are all from a sequence of about 33 diacriticals (which also contain a division sign.) ( ascii nos. 223 - 255).
The _ . ? and , are there as real punctuation marks, I think, because they are all followed by a space ) and are not part of this sequence of symbols.
IF this is a REAL message, and each letter has been replaced by another symbol, it has several distinctive features.
1. All letters are lower case
2. There are very few single and double letter words.
3. There are no double letters.
4. All or (nearly all) of these characters are used. I still need to do a count.
What sort of language could it be? We are looking for a language which uses an alphabet of 30 + letters.
The Cyrillic alphabet springs to mind. I believe that some Slav tongues have a more letters than Russian.
Most languages have definite and indefinite article and pronouns, which are frequently repeated short words of one or two letters.
Russian (and possibly other Slavonic languages) do not often use them or the verb "to be".
How about double letters?
I don't think Russian uses them.
Here is an enlarged copy of the original text with highlights to show certain features.

So Bob, you are our Russian expert. Do you think we can crack this one? If we do a frequency count and find it tallies with Russian, we might find an answer. :t hinking:

êàê ïðàâèëüíî ñîêðàòèòü áþäæåòíà ðåêëàìó
ïðèâåò.ß ðàáîòàþ ìàðêåòîëîãîì â ãîðîäå ðîñòîâ-íà-äîíó . èç-çà êðèçèñà íàì óðåçàëè ôèíàíñèðîâàíèå íà ðåêëàìó, è ïðè ýòîì íóæíî íå ïîòåðÿòü çàêàç÷èêîâ. ×òî äåëàòü - íå çíàþ. ïîñïðàøèâàëà çíàêîìûõ - ñêàçàëè, ÷òî èíòåðíåò ðåêëàìà ëó÷øå âñåãî. ïî íàøåé äåÿòåëüíîñòè â èíòåðíåòå íàøëà ìíîãî ñïðàâî÷íèêîâ. çàðåãèñòðèðîâàëàñü â îäíîì èç íèõ ðîñøèíà. áóäåò ëè îò ýòîãî òîëê? åñëè äà - òî ïîäåëèòåñü ñïèñêîì òàêèõ ñàéòîâ. ìîæåò áûòü êòî-òî åùå ÷åãî-íèáóäü ïîäñêàæåò?

　
　
　
　
　
　
　

[Rusty]

The mystery language is Russian, but it was copied directly from a PDF into the text box, and that's why the ASCII characters are appearing - those characters represent the Cyrillic alphabet in a PDF.

Here are the first two "sentences" of Russian (you'll soon understand why I put the word sentences in quotes), and a translation.

I'll let you figure out the rest!

как правильно сократить бюджетна рекламу привет.
Я работаю маркетологом в городе ростов-на-дону.

how to really reduce your advertising budget
hello.
I work in marketing in the city of Rostov-na-Donu.

[CrOtALiTo]

What is it?

[brute]

Originally Posted by Rusty

The mystery language is Russian, but it was copied directly from a PDF into the text box, and that's why the ASCII characters are appearing - those characters represent the Cyrillic alphabet in a PDF.

Here are the first two "sentences" of Russian (you'll soon understand why I put the word sentences in quotes), and a translation.

I'll let you figure out the rest!

как правильно сократить бюджетна рекламу привет.
Я работаю маркетологом в городе ростов-на-дону.

how to really reduce your advertising budget
hello.
I work in marketing in the city of Rostov-na-Donu.

Thanks Rusty,you are brilliant! You have confirmed my suspicions. I think there may be a crisis in the next sentence.
It looks as if the diacriticals and Russian letters are direct transliterations following the same "alphabetical" sequence as their ASCII numbers, starting à = A etc. When I have the odd hour to spare I will try to decode and translate the rest !!

Mientros tanto, hay que estudiar unos verbos irregulares.
A sido un ejercicio muy interesante, pero no ha ayudado mi español.

[brute]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

What is it?

Es un mensaje originaramante escrito en ruso. Por causa de incompatibilidad entre dos systemas electrónicas diferentes, la escritura se ha "traducido" sin querer en una forma totalmente incompensible. En realidad es un problema matemático y informatico.

[Tomisimo]

Thread closed since it seems to be attracting an inordinate number of spam posts. If anyone wants to continue this discussion, feel free to open a new thread.