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WilmywoodNCparalegal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:37 PM
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Please explain to this non-native English speaker
what does "all of your bases are belong to us" mean???? it makes no sense...
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:38 PM
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1. No, you have it wrong: it's "All your base are belong to us"
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:42 PM
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11. In A.D. 2101 War was beginning
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every 'Zig'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
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Captain: For great justice.
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zbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:39 PM
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2. My guess is that your "non-native English speaking" English is...
one hell of a lot more understandable than the moron in chief's "Manglish" (mangled English).
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WilmywoodNCparalegal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:40 PM
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8. There is no doubt about that...
my dogs' English is better than his... but that's another topic!

Ok, so what does it mean? It makes no sense....
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Salviati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:39 PM
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3. It's a quote from a notoriously badly translated video game from the 80's
typically used to claim victory over your opponant.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:39 PM
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4. hese is the whole history
http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/ayb.html its a play on an early 90's videogame where the english was butchered
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:39 PM
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5. It's "Japlish"
Japlish is English as manglee by Japanese translators.

It was originally a line in a computer game: "All your base are belong to us". It was such a hilariously wacky thing that it traveled far and wide on the net.

That's all there is to it.

BTW, what is your first language?

--p!
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WilmywoodNCparalegal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:41 PM
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9. eye-talian!
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:40 PM
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6. It's poorly-translated text from a Japanese video game.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:40 PM
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7. It's from a silly video,
Give me a minute, I'll find you a link. Or you can google "All your base" video and look for links that way. It's a bad translation of a Japanese video game, I think.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:41 PM
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10. Somebody set up us the bomb!
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:47 PM
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12. What you say!
:D
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