Caveat: All Your Bad Englishes Are Belong to Us

Actually, I LOVE bad Englishes. As a descriptive linguist, I don't feel any need to correct them, when they memify. Rather, I feel a strong temptation to encourage their proliferation – because it's like I want to encourage linguistic diversity and language change. Well, anyway, there was a posting at Language Log about the "All Your Base" meme, and I was thinking about it.

What I'm listening to right now.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us – Youtube fan-techno, or something. Right. 물론!

Relatedly, while surfing the decrepit and latent links of LanguageLogLand, I ran across the most romantic nerd-poem EVER:

roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

Caveat: 거지도 부지런하면 더운 밥 얻어 먹는다

거지도       부지런하면          더운      밥   얻어  먹는다
beggar-TOO diligence-DOES-IF warm-ADJ rice gets eats
If a beggar is diligent he can get and eat warm rice too.

Even googletranslate believes this has something to do with early birds and worms, so that must be the equivalent proverb. I never liked that proverb – mostly because I don't feel like eating worms. But I understand the idea. I like the Korean version better – it's very bootstrappy.

[Daily log: day-of-rest]

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