Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
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Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
me: "Yeah, it's Low Germanic, but not Northern."
Derek: "Huh? Is it a language named after some city or something?"
me: "Nope, it's named after a continent."
Derek: "A continent?!"
me: "Yep. Go back to your room, continue grading, and in 30 seconds you'll figure it out and be like ‘Dammit!’"
(16:51:22) Derek: LOL
(16:51:24) Derek: you bastard
(16:52:04) [me]: told you :-P
(16:52:22) Derek: *shaking fist*
Girl at check-out: "You just want the bagel?"
Derek: "Yeah. But I want the stuff inside too. Is that okay?"
Girl at check-out: "Sure."
"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."
Jonathan: "Hey, Derek, gonna get tested for rabies?"
Derek: "Yeah, I guess I should—I wouldn't want to infect the squirrels."
"Breton music is like Irish dance music with Iranian instruments."
"Okay, look dude: one thigh, two thigh, butt, back."
(22:39:59) [me]: like, Proto Turkic has very few colour words
...
(22:41:03) [me]: *sarg = yellow
(22:41:11) [me]: not sure where that's from, actually
(22:50:40) Derek: I went back in time and told them that word
Gabe: "When people tell me they're vegan, I just feel like shoving a steak down their throat."
Derek: "I'm vegan." [opens mouth]
Jonathan: "Why did the French decide to settle Louisiana? What were they thinking, with the bayous and the prehistorical aligator-looking thingies that eat you?"
Gabe: "Well, the French are frogs, right?"
Jonathan: "Well, they eat frogs."
Derek: "Maybe they were looking for Yoda."
"You can tell it's cold outside when humans start turning off the lights and watching something hot inside glow."
Jonathan: "I don't like the 373 bus as much as the 66 bus, because instead of dropping you off a block and a half from the house, it drops you off √50 blocks from the house."
Derek: "Uh, I think that's where my mother lives."
(03:28:52) [me]: mkay, yeah, I need to pack
(03:29:03) Derek: psh
(03:29:04) Derek: whatever
(03:29:10) Derek: just throw it all in a ball
(03:29:14) Derek: duct tape it up
(03:29:19) Derek: and roll it on the plane
(03:29:30) Derek: if you tell them its a bomb, they work faster you know
"It was funny when Derek had a question, you could tell—it was like watching a puppy. ‘Got a morphology problem boy?’"
"I'm not like you. I got all these vowels from my parents… and some consonants from these Klingons."
(23:53:48) Derek: That's a really well preserved blade
(23:53:53) Derek: for how old it is
(23:56:13) [me]: it's metal.
(23:57:07) Derek: "it's metal" doesn't cut it
(23:57:12) Derek: because iron rusts
(23:57:18) Derek: and steel rusts really fast
(23:57:27) Derek: ha - doesn't cut it
(23:57:29) Derek: I made a funny
me, holding a can of Mountain Dew: "You know what would probably be good? This and orange juice."
Derek: "I donno man...."
me: "I mean it's green and orange—how can you go wrong with… oh, wait."
Derek: "Blood sucks."
Jonathan: "Then it'd be a vampire, but blood can't be a vampire—then it'd be cannibalistic."
"Okay, be careful when you're going to the bathroom, cause we don't want toilet paper falling in the toilet."
Derek: "Agh!"
Rianna: "What's wrong with your spine?"
Derek: "It's made out of bones!"
"'How'? You're asking the wrong guy—I'm not a class-VII expert."
Derek: "Look, cheerleaders."
Jonathan: "And they're not wearing their uniforms."
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"That's interesting: if you eat spicy food with the back of your mouth, the back part gets burned."
"Why is it that the Kazakh flag strikes me as Romulan somehow?"
Derek: "Amy, you live in a boat."
Amy: "Yes, I do, and I was kept up last night because it was stormy."
Derek: "Oh, that'd be cool! Did you get sea-sick?"
Jonathan: "A lot of people look like Galen today."
Derek: "Yep: Cartoons. Real people."
"Oh, cool! I got a lump on my arm. And it's turning colours."
"But I just knew they'd be all like, 'Man, she stole our crack!'"
Jonathan: "People never write on your wall. They write on my wall all the time."
Derek: "Yeah, that's because you're friends with an entire country."
(04:21:50) Derek: somebody took my magical woman attracting kitten and made a Russian postcard out of it?
"I did have the dishes washed..."
"No, you see, it doesn't work that way—it's dark half the year, so you commit suicide, and the other half of the year, it's light, and you're dead."
(00:42:03) Derek: I found a way to explain language change to our students
(00:42:31) Derek: Languages start out cool and get less cool with time, unless the change involves gaining velars or uvulars
"Do not put your baby in front of my car."
Derek: "No, Joyce, what you should be saying is ‘[in effeminite voice] atashi.’"
Meghan: "Is that the female you?"
Derek: "No, that's the Hello Kitty me."
Derek: "Something about the word ‘Kyrgyz’ sounds agressive."
Jonathan: "What about [qr̩ˈʀz̩] sounds agressive?"
"Well I'm gonna go watch atomic bombs. …Dude, they're pretty—it's too bad they suck."
Jonathan: "Look at all the different kinds of mould in there! There's white ones, black ones, grey ones, and green ones."
Derek: "And they're all living in harmony."
Chuck: "There's Low German forms, Middle High German forms, Upper High German forms, and even Anglo-Frisian forms. This is weird!"
Derek: "Maybe a non-native speaker wrote it."
Chuck: "Or they had some pretty heavy stuff back then."
Derek: [ftktp]!
Jonathan: "What's that?"
Derek: "Probably Berber."
Derek: "I think we should write in runes, and the British should write in Roman."
Jonathan: "What about the Australians?"
Derek: "… They can write in kanji."
(13:06:16) Derek: I wanted to say thanks for speaking Kazakh (etc) around me all the time
(13:06:41) Derek: I think it's giving me a big edge in my Uighur class right now
(13:07:28) Derek: Turkic seems familiar to me instead of something strange, which is something the other students I would say definitely lack ;)
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
(00:31:27) [me]: btw, safeway's website claims that this one is 24hours
(00:31:32) [me]: is it sketchy to go there at 1am?
(00:31:39) Derek: yes
(00:31:47) Derek: you're probably a crack dealer
Jonathan: "Mm, easy mac. I'm hungry. We don't have easy mac, do we?"
Derek: "No, but we have hard mac."
Derek: "I can't wait 'til next week, man."
Jonathan: "Why's that?"
Derek: "'Cause it's all over then. It's kind of like not being able to wait until you're euthanised."
(03:24:42) Derek: you know
(03:24:52) Derek: I have absolutely nothing against a woman being president but
(03:24:54) Derek: Hilary Clinton?
(03:24:59) Derek: does it have to be her??
(03:12:51) [me]: I think they decided the klingons weren't Russian or Chinese enough anymore and had to rethink a new race to fit that type of society
(03:13:07) Derek: yeah
(03:13:21) Derek: they started Russian-Mongols and ended up Vikings
"Он взял хлеб, потом убежал чють-чють подальше и там стоял и кушал. Не друг, то есть, а белка."