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All Your Base Are Turned Five

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-your-time dept.

Subm writes "All your base are turned five! According to AYBABTU: The History, 'June 5, 2000: The Zero Wing Dub Project is posted at OverClocked - the first original AYB humor.' Before then there was only an oddly (brilliantly?) translated game. But five years ago, someone set up us the bomb!" The Flash Video is, of course, still available.

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  1. You know, you've got to wonder... by aendeuryu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...if somewhere in Japan or Korea or China they've got tributes to poor translations from English into their languages.

    Lord knows there's lots of potential. "Don't see" or "Don't sleep" in Korean comes close to "vagina" and "penis", and Microsoft's first effort to build a brand in Asia (not quite sure where) ended up with something that came out as "small and soft".

  2. And "Al Qaida" literally means "the base". by GQuon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And "Al Qaida" literally means "the base". No joke.

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