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Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts) Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:04 PM Mar 2015

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Email spam is so odd sometimes: "Wanting for once to be caught each fish raves."

I know all the words, but when put in that order it doesn't connect.

Are there fish raves? Does each fish rave to be caught? Are they masochistic fish? Suicidal?

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Email spam is so odd sometimes: "Wanting for once to be caught each fish raves." (Original Post) Liberal Veteran Mar 2015 OP

If a native speaker of English wrote that sentence hifiguy Mar 2015 #1

Does the email end with "Sorry, Charlie"? pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #2

It might be trying to get around a SPAM filter Ron Obvious Mar 2015 #3

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

1. If a native speaker of English wrote that sentence

Reply to Liberal Veteran (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:26 PM

Mar 2015

I am this guy

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

2. Does the email end with "Sorry, Charlie"?

Reply to Liberal Veteran (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:27 PM

Mar 2015

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

3. It might be trying to get around a SPAM filter

Reply to Liberal Veteran (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:39 PM

Mar 2015

Some SPAM filters would flag that as conversational English.

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