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Re: All your base are belong to us. (fwd) And more Klingon X-Files...

All Your Base Are Belong To Us...

There's a Shockwave Flash thing about that very same video game opening...it 
begins with the clip from the game, and then it begins showing photos, all 
of which have All Your Base Are Belong To Us edited into them, so it appears 
displayed on airplane banners, road signs, those little boards you hold in 
front of you at the police station, scrolling marquees...everything.

http://planetsiege.com/allyourbase/ayb2.swf

It's long and might take a while to load, but it is pretty funny.


And to make this Klingon-related, remember how I translated X-Files quotes 
into Klingon? I decided to translate an entire episode. (Entire mailing list 
groans.) It's called "Ice" and it's from the first season. I'm only partway 
done, I had to < > a lot of the medical terms, I didn't translate everything 
exactly, and I had to make a few idioms up (don't worry, I explain them). 
But I think I'm actually doing a good job. (You might remember me asking how 
to translate some of those medical terms...most memorably, "stool." And not 
the chair kind.) Here's some excerpts...the stuff in square brackets is what 
I intended the translation to be:

MULDER: So far, nobody's been able to reach the compound because of bad 
weather. Obviously, they think we're either brilliant or expendable because 
we've pulled the assignment.

muD Dotlh qabmo' qachDaq jaHlaHpu' pagh. mavalba' pagh maramba', Qu' 
nunobmo'.

[Because of bad atmospheric status, nobody has been able to go to the 
building. Either we're obviously smart or we're obviously umimportant 
because they gave us the task.]
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SCULLY: From the autopsies, it's clear that these men killed each other.
There are contusions around the throat areas of three men, evidence of
strangulation.

HoHchuqba' loDpu'vam 'e' 'ang porgh pojmeywIj. rIQ wej loD HughDu'; 
luvoQmoHlaHpu' vay'.

[My body analyses reveal that these men obviously killed each other. Three 
men's throats are injured; someone could have caused them to choke.]
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BEAR: I got hired to fly you up here and fly you back. No one said this
might be part of the deal. So the deal is over.

naDev Sapuv 'ej Sachegh 'e' 'oH Qu'wIj'e'. Qu'wIj 'ay' bIHbe' Dochmeyvam'e'! 
vaj rIn Qu'wIj!

[My job/mission/duty was to fly you here and return you. These things aren't 
part of my job! So the job is finished!]
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How'd I do so far? Not *too* bad, I hope...(If I did do bad, I'll just scrap 
the whole thing.)
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