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top categories: russian (6), linguistics (5), language (5), multilingualisms (4), kyrgyz (3)

most quoted with: Jonathan North Washington (5), Öwgönxüü (1), my father (1), me (1)

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[link] heard: 16 January 2010
[edit] added: 16 January 2010

Jonathan: "Пиво тебе понравилось?"

Толгонай: "Вкус как лимонад. Имено лимонный лимонад. Классно - первое пиво которое мне понравилось."

russian, alcohol
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[link] heard: 8 February 2010
[edit] added: 7 February 2010

"Мне нравится эта песня потому-что старая. Она моя бабушка."

about "I will survive"
family, silliness, weirdness, music, russian
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[link] heard: 23 April 2010
[edit] added: 23 April 2010

"‘Мен кеттим. Вернусь on Sunday,’ деп айтты."

And they say people code switch to mark discourse edges or to indicate other meaning....
linguistics, kyrgyz, russian, language, turkic, multilingualisms
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[link] heard: 7 May 2010
[edit] added: 9 May 2010

"Ой, өчүр рекламаны. Түшүндүк уже: сатылат экен."

Tolgonay learns about paid programming.
common-sense, kyrgyz, multilingualisms, tv
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[link] heard: 28 March 2012
[edit] added: 28 March 2012

me: "Yeah, Tolgonay, if I won the lottery and got poisoned, you'd be the first person they investigate."

Andy: "Or they'll just look at the mouldy bread on the table, and be like ‘oh, it was an accident.’"

death, accidents, sickness, violence, weirdness, money
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[link] heard: 28 March 2012
[edit] added: 28 March 2012

me: "Hm, this talk looks like it's going to be about how some researchers make animal communication look more similar to language than it is."

Tolgonay: "‘Meow.’ What did I say?"

animals, cats, gradschool, linguistics, language, craziness
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[link] heard: 9 April 2012
[edit] added: 9 April 2012

"We have vowel harmony; it's great. I like it, I love it!"

kyrgyz, linguistics, phonetics, love, turkic
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[link] heard: 1 August 2012
[edit] added: 1 August 2012

my father: "Tell him he doesn't know how to pronounce the Queen's English."

Tolgonay: "Say ‘the Queen's English’!"

misunderstandings, language, stupidity, misparsings
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[link] heard: 15 September 2013
[edit] added: 15 September 2013

Я: "Lucky точно так думает: ‘Я королева джунгли!’ деп."

Толгонай: "У родителей точно джунгли."

family, cats, cleanliness, russian, insightfulness, imagination, animals
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[link] heard: 15 October 2013
[edit] added: 15 October 2013

"Поэтому language is живой!"

language, russian, multilingualisms, linguistics
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[link] heard: 4 November 2013
[edit] added: 7 November 2013

Толгонай: "На русском есть неправильные глаголы что ли?"

me: "Да, конечно, почти все. Дай любой глагол, я покажу тебе."

Толгонай: "Брать."

me: "Брать - беру́ - берёшь - брал. Видешь?"

Толгонай: "Seems normal to me..."

multilingualisms, linguistics, russian, language, silliness
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