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redwitch

(14,944 posts)
Thu May 23, 2013, 11:46 PM May 2013

My facebook page is now in Mongolian. Or something that looks like it.

I don't know how this happened or how to fix it but my friends are not going to be able to read what I post. My son just moved to a new city and gave me his lap top. Could he have set me up with a time bomb to goof on me? Help! Or as I like to say" "cho hu fox iw gibberish".

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My facebook page is now in Mongolian. Or something that looks like it. (Original Post) redwitch May 2013 OP
OK, it went back to English all by itself. redwitch May 2013 #1
I was wrong, still furrin. redwitch May 2013 #2
No suggestions, but once my spell checker decided it was French csziggy May 2013 #3
I am so tired tonight I am punch drunk so it is making me laugh. redwitch May 2013 #4
Check your Facebook settings - I bet they got changed to some other country csziggy May 2013 #5
All fixed! redwitch May 2013 #6
Yeah! n/t csziggy May 2013 #7
mmmmmm BillStein May 2013 #8
I have no idea what Mongolian barbeque is but I'd be glad to make you some! redwitch May 2013 #9
like a salad bar of stir fry ingredients BillStein May 2013 #11
LOL! Wait Wut May 2013 #10
I love facebook translation tool. redwitch May 2013 #12
If i let my daughters use my cell phone olddots May 2013 #13
Mongolian is beautiful. rug May 2013 #14
a friend once switched my sister's phone to chinese fizzgig May 2013 #15

redwitch

(14,944 posts)
2. I was wrong, still furrin.
Thu May 23, 2013, 11:53 PM
May 2013

I don't know what to click on to change the setting as it is no longer something I can read. Maybe it will become apparent after I have slept.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
3. No suggestions, but once my spell checker decided it was French
Fri May 24, 2013, 12:19 AM
May 2013

I don't remember how I fixed it, but for about six months, everything I wrote was spelled incorrectly since I don't speak or type French. It was some setting in Windows, if I remember correctly.

redwitch

(14,944 posts)
4. I am so tired tonight I am punch drunk so it is making me laugh.
Fri May 24, 2013, 12:22 AM
May 2013

Tomorrow it may make me a little testy. I hope I can figure it out but all I see is incomprehensible to me so I don't know what to click to fix it.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
5. Check your Facebook settings - I bet they got changed to some other country
Fri May 24, 2013, 12:27 AM
May 2013

Or language. Of course, if the menus are in the other language, that could be hard to fix!

Note - I don't do Facebook so I have no idea what to check. Good luck!

redwitch

(14,944 posts)
9. I have no idea what Mongolian barbeque is but I'd be glad to make you some!
Fri May 24, 2013, 01:00 PM
May 2013

If only the recipes are in English!

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
10. LOL!
Fri May 24, 2013, 01:10 PM
May 2013

My DIL is Japanese. She used my computer, switched it to Kanji and forgot to switch it back. I went through 8 hours of withdrawal until I could get a hold of her and asked her how she did it so I could switch it back.

She apologized for about a week.

redwitch

(14,944 posts)
12. I love facebook translation tool.
Fri May 24, 2013, 02:11 PM
May 2013

My friend Satomi often posts in Japanese and when I click for translation the results are hilarious!

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
15. a friend once switched my sister's phone to chinese
Fri May 24, 2013, 02:34 PM
May 2013

after the rehearsal dinner, the wedding party went back to our place for drinks and the officiant decided to change the language settings on my sister's phone.

it was hilarious how much she freaked out over that.

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