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"The Spanish speakers are all like ‘it's close enough—we'll just make a little phonological conversion chart: «insert a bunch of /ʒ/ and /ão/»’"

"Now, you know what would make this sound African, is you put those pumpkin seeds in that basket thingy."

"There's only three themes in Bluegrass anyway: death, bad love, and for some reason retail."

"I touch things and their technological valence goes back a decade. Like one time, I got into a tractor and it turned into a plough. I make Priuses disappear."

"Neuron - check, Pyscho-neuron - X,.... ‘Hey, this looks like it was graded by a folklorist!’"

"It's like he's the movie Speed, but a Mongolist."

me: "it's completely predictable"

me: "which isn't what most linguists would expect"

Baatar: "or isnt what they would predict"

"I ego-attach a little bit to Mongolia: I'm jaded and I drink a lot. The good things about Mongolia."

"He lost my attention so fast, it actually made a noise."

"That's why British people hate us:"

[effects RP]

"‘None of your rich people are posh.’"

"Anthropology's just racist folklore."

Baatar: "It says here that the republican candidates were going ‘reverse trick-or-treating’."

me: "What does that mean?"

Baatar: "They call it ‘trick-or-campaigning’. But it should be ‘trick and campaigning’."

[Baatar opens New Testament]

"‘G-d’, ‘G-d’, ‘G-d’, ‘Man’, ..‘Zeus’?!"

Baatar: "I wonder what happened."

Jonathan: "They're probably just being Central Asians."

Baatar: "Yeah, they'll show up really late."

Jonathan: "‘We'll be there on Monday.’"

Baatar: "Yeah, but they wouldn't say that."

Jonathan: "Yeah, they'd probably came up with some excuse."

Baatar: "They'll just show up three days later on their microbus and say, ‘We couldn't cross river.’"

...

Baatar: "‘We made good time across Russia, but then we got to the Atlantic.’"

"It's not a real conflict; it's a scholarly conflict."

Чулуун: "Okay, so the second group will just be two lines behind the entire song. Does that make sense?"

[everyone nods]

Чулуун: "Okay, so, first group? Second group?"

[pause while everyone looks around]

Багш: "Баатар!"

"Yeah, someone's throwing lemon harangue pies at me."

"Okay, here's one of my stories about moonshine. So I have this uncle named Sam, and he's married to a French woman..."