Random - What's this?

Eosha · Post by **Eosha** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:34 pm

Stumbled across this sign in a playground. Any idea what it means?

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Awkwardschoolgirl · Post by **Awkwardschoolgirl** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:36 pm

What country was the playground in?

Kite-san · Post by **Kite-san** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:24 pm

.....could it just be a gibberish sign meant to confuse people?

Foolosophy · Post by **Foolosophy** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:08 pm

eosha wrote:Stumbled across this sign in a playground. Any idea what it means?

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A boy I see - we fun - he - me - still - pet - bye? ^^

Bin Boy · Post by **Bin Boy** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:25 pm

Could be an educational 'toy'. Can you see the numbers 1 to 9, or find the word boy, etc.

ManaUser · Post by **ManaUser** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:20 am

Hehe, that's very furstrating. I've had a few idea of how you might go about reading it, assuming it's some type if code or puzzle. But none of them make sense after a couple lines. Of course the fact that it include accented characters implies the answer might not be in english. Or maybe the real message is "J", the only letter left out?

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:28 am

Bin Boy wrote:Could be an educational 'toy'. Can you see the numbers 1 to 9, or find the word boy, etc.

This is probably the most likely scenario.

Eosha · Post by **Eosha** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:37 am

It's funny... the sign's in China, but the playground (and presumably the sign with it) was made in Finland... yet the sign seems to be trying to be in English. I can't write it off as just another engrish confusion...

It could be just an English toy ("find the word", etc.) except how would that work for the last line? Too many non-standard English characters in no particular order (except "BYE!", of course).

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:57 am

Hmmm... I'l ltry posting this on my cryptography club and see if they can figure it out.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:50 pm

zOMG that is just *sick*! I can't believe they would write *that* on playground furniture! Won't someone think of the children?

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:58 pm

Seriously, prettydragoon, what does it mean?

Once I remove all single characters/numbers I get the resulting anagram: "Eye let be".

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:15 am

aeridus wrote:

Seriously, prettydragoon, what does it mean?

As a fellow speaker of the fine language of Finnish, I deduce it reads complete nonsense, except for the few english words here and there.

Churba · Post by **Churba** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:36 pm

I know what finnish sounds like, And I can very vaugely understand what someone is saying in it, if they talk with their hands a little too, but I don't speak it, and can't exactly do word association. I do however speak reasonably fluent spanish, friench, italian, russian, Basque and latin - and it is also nonsense in all of those.

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:12 am

Nightingale wrote:Y' know, sounds odd, but I have no idea what Finnish sounds like. I'd probably think I'm hearing Sweedish or something. Darn my American ignorance.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MTWWTnaT1XM

^Some audio clips from various finnish TV-shows cut together with clips from Dragonball Z. Funny shit, if you understand what they say.

Mutta sehän on musta mies!

Leeloo · Post by **Leeloo** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:08 am

Nightingale wrote:Y' know, sounds odd, but I have no idea what Finnish sounds like. I'd probably think I'm hearing Sweedish or something. Darn my American ignorance.

I know what it looks like - a lot of random letters, with double i's (ii) spread everywhere.

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:46 am

Leeloo wrote:
Nightingale wrote:Y' know, sounds odd, but I have no idea what Finnish sounds like. I'd probably think I'm hearing Sweedish or something. Darn my American ignorance.
I know what it looks like - a lot of random letters, with double i's (ii) spread everywhere.

Double consonants, really.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:11 am

WangyJohn wrote:
Leeloo wrote:
Nightingale wrote:Y' know, sounds odd, but I have no idea what Finnish sounds like. I'd probably think I'm hearing Sweedish or something. Darn my American ignorance.
I know what it looks like - a lot of random letters, with double i's (ii) spread everywhere.
Double consonants, really.

And double vowels, too. The basic principle of Finnish orthography is: more is better.

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And yes, I read Finnish.

Yes, the sign is just random letters.