A question for the native English speaking people.

[fitmic]

The phrase: "All your bases are belong to me"

What's up with that?

What's the story behind it?

[KB]

It's from some Internet game I think, it's certainly not good English.

Ken

Edit; yep here you go....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

[FasTTaP]

the original sentence is 'All your base are belong to us"... It's a long story, so as I'm quite lazy, I'll just give you a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

edit: oups... you beat me up to that Kenberg

Cool story though, worth reading.

Edited April 19, 2008 by FasTTaP

[ryyannon]

[fotoman]

all your base, base, base, base -- All your base are belong to US!

that and Peanut Butter Jelly Time! are some of the best all time internet diddys

[doc savage]

WHAT YOU SAY!!

[ryyannon]

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME HA HA HA

[Victoria]

The phrase: "All your bases are belong to me"

As you imagined, Fitmic, it's an English-language corruption of all "your bases belong to us". Just a bad translation, sometimes called "Engrish", from East Asian languages to English.

BTW, I recently found out who Will Wright was. The apparently very well-known inventor of "The Sims", which recently hit 100 million games sold. Heck, even I have bought that game once.

Do all computer nerds have to look like this...?

[#ars]

Do all computer nerds have to look like this...?

I guess ... yes?

It's just a convention the guys have to follow. I guess they've agreed on one look and that's it.

And if we are talking about the all time classics, let's not forget the tasty bananaphone.

"hmhmhmhmmhm banaphone ... ding dong ding dong ding ..."

Edited April 20, 2008 by #ars