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Old 10-Oct-2006, 11:44
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Hi everyone!

I came across the phrase "all your base are belong to us" .Could you tell me what it means? (such a weird phrase )

thx in advance!
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Old 10-Oct-2006, 11:50
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Hi everyone!
I came across the phrase "all your base are belong to us" .Could you tell me what it means? (such a weird phrase )
thx in advance!
Where did you come across that? It's not English. What the speaker may have meant is "All your bases belong to us".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you...e_belong_to_us

The phrase comes from an old video game that was (badly) translated from Japanese into English. It has since taken on a life of its own.
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