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Even though I’m working…

… I just couldn’t resist this one. It made me so happy. Signatures recently spotted on Slashdot :

(For those of you who have no idea what the background on this is, see In Soviet Russia Wiki explanation.)

In Soviet Russia, all your base are belong to Natalie Portman’s Beowulf cluster of hot grits for Profit! cuz BSD is dead

In SOVIET RUSSIA, bad joke perpetuates YOU!

God, I could practically write a linguistics paper just about the fact that it’s funny to invert subject and object here. Think about the implications! (As opposed to, say, the linguistic and sociolinguistic interaction of Hawaiian Creole English and standard English. Which is what I’m supposedly researching. Honest, I am… trying, that is.)

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