Re: USAGE: idioms with variable objects (was: deeply embedded VSO nightmare)

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:56:24AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Muke Tever scripsit:
>
> > "All your base are belong to X"?  (= X is in a position of superiority over
> > you)
>
> But "base" is not truly part of this idiom, if it even counts as an idiom,
[snip]

One of the funnier variants of this one I saw somewhere online:

        "Al your Qaeda are belong to us."

This is a punny reference to "Al Qaeda", the terrorist organization.
"Qaeda" is Arabic for "base". Just so happens that this name happens to
fit so well into the structure of this idiom :-)


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