All your base are belong to us

Have a happy sunshiny day ! Technical Translators you gotta love em . I have a buddy who does it . He is very precise and a knowledge of english which is phenamanal ...phinomanal .... outstanding .
 
Memepwned!

I made some others but this was the least offensive, so it gets used here. Some of the other forums I frequent have much more relaxed views on behavior and my avatars are (perhaps not surprisingly) a bit more colorful over there.

That, and I like to keep it old school. For great justice.
 
Informative and funny. Engrish...

Back in the days of typesetting, I once was asked to make up a false message that was put into a young lady's fortune cookie.
 
Geeze, that's a great way to weed the internet geek from the non-internet geek....yeah, i knew exactly what it meant and laughed a bit. "All Your Base" is an internet staple. Right up there with the dancing baby and the numma numma kid and the star wars kid and the....<sigh> I'm such a geek:rolleyes: :D

Anyone wonder what a mixture of Queen and Zero Wing Engrish would sound like?? nobody??..at all?..really?
tough...here's the linky: Zero Wing Rhapsody

All your Jake are belong to us
 
You guys make me laugh so hard sometimes!!

Thanks!

Tom

:D

PS My wife is Nissei/Sansei, so she both hates it and laughs at it when I do mock Japanese, sort of like the Swedish chef! Just yesterday she was talking about some alphabet that doesn't use R's. and said she liked it. So I started coming up with phrases with lots of r's, and substituting L's instead. She and the kids had a great hootin' laugh. I managed to keep my composure, of course!

:D :D
 
gravertom said:
PS My wife is Nissei/Sansei, so she both hates it and laughs at it when I do mock Japanese, sort of like the Swedish chef! Just yesterday she was talking about some alphabet that doesn't use R's. and said she liked it. So I started coming up with phrases with lots of r's, and substituting L's instead. She and the kids had a great hootin' laugh. I managed to keep my composure, of course!

Tom

:D :D
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Of course you did.:rolleyes: :p ;) :D Tell your dear wife that Cherokee doesn't have any "R's" either. No "B's" as well.
It would be downright funny for a Japanese and a Cherokee trying to converse with their respective accents, ainnit? :D :o
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Which makes it hard to say Cherokee in Tsalagi.
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Yup, you can't say Cherokee in Tsalagi. I think I've read where Cherokee was a word another tribe called us meaning Hill People.
 
I first got on the internet in '92 or '93, by means that weren't entirely legal at the time. Since I'm probably covered by statutes of limitation (or whatever that term is), I'll admit that I was gaining access to the internet via the local library. It went online far more quickly than most (especially in this particular area) and by hook or by crook, an account name and a password became available for a few of us, unknown to the owner. Everything was text back then, the modems of the day couldn't really handle images, let alone video. It was a very different internet.

I consider myself very fortunate to have seen what things looked like back then.

I've caught some memes and slipped around many others. I did miss the peak of AYB on account of my profession at the time, but as a late arrival (and an outsider looking in) I can't help but see the parallels. Without the intent of unduly insulting anyone, "All your base are belong to us" strikes a chord in my consciousness as it refers to US foreign policy as of late. I figured that it was culturally relevant.

I'm a bit more connected now, but the oldies remain the goodies. I was honestly and pleasantly surprised that anyone caught on to this one. Good on you, Kazeryu and Jake.

And yes, even though it's considered somewhat cliche in certain circles, one does hear this time and time again in online games. (At least when they're playing with me.) In flight sims especially, nothing quite drives the point home as bombing the enemy team's airfield harshly, vulching numerous folks in the process, and topping it off with "All your base are belong to us" over a global channel on the long trip home to rearm and refuel.

Memes are fascinating to me. Take off every 'Zig. You know what you doing.
 
Yvsa,

My wife did appreciate your comments, and got a hoot out of the wikipedia site as well.

I checked out the Engrish, but the heavy metal umlaut page was more than I could take!!

..
Tom
 
See now, when I first read that, I thought it was a philosophical statement that meant:

"All mankind has the same fundemental weaknesses of character and thus all are brothers."










OK, maybe not. Actually, I am out of that cultural loop. Nice to learn.
 
Good stuff. Dave your avatars are always fun. I wanna see some of the dirtier ones...
 
Wow, haven't seen that one for years. Good stuff. Got to love Engrish -- I will buy gum from the Asian grocery store just because it says "YES, CHEWING!!!" on the back of the package. :D

I think my favorite thing on albinoblacksheep was that stupid "LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET" song... don't ask.
 
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