From edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu Mon Jun 04 18:56:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 01:56:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 16979 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 01:56:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 01:56:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta6.snfc21.pbi.net) (206.13.28.240) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 01:56:41 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([216.103.90.93]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GEF00HHKPCF89@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:55:23 -0700 Subject: Re: [lojban] ALL YOUR BASE In-reply-to: <20010602174153.O6797@digitalkingdom.org> X-Sender: cherlin@postoffice.pacbell.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" References: <20010602174153.O6797@digitalkingdom.org> From: Edward Cherlin At 5:41 PM -0700 6/2/01, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:53:44AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >> >> la pycyn cusku di'e >> >> >I'm following this argument and I don't even know what it is about (I >> >have the source text apparently but have no clue whence it comes). >> > > At first I thought they were new Bushisms, but now I don't think so. An easily understood mistake. :-) >Bad mistranslations of an old video game. The game is Zero Wing. Details on the history of the game and the history of the memetic explosion are provided in the FAQ at http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/file/zero_wing.txt The dud English translation was included in the European release. There was at that time no US release. Budget problems have been blamed for the apparent hiring of a college student with a dictionary. -- Edward Cherlin Generalist "A knot!" exclaimed Alice. "Oh, do let me help to undo it." Alice in Wonderland