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top categories: language (5), sexuality (5), provincialism (4), puns (4), cynicism (3)

most quoted with: professors (2), Jonathan North Washington (2), other (1)

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[link] heard: 31 August 2010
[edit] added: 2 September 2010

"For Indiana, Irkutsk is gay-friendly."

provincialism, sexuality, sadness, mongolian, SSSR, cynicism
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[link] heard: 17 September 2010
[edit] added: 17 September 2010

[Niko says something syntactically odd in English]

[Everyone pauses and frowns, including Niko]

Niko: "Eh, L9 interference."

linguistics, non-nativisms, language, cynicism
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[link] heard: 13 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011

CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"

Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"

russian, linguistics, hyperbole, insightfulness, SSSR, provincialism, pessimism, insults, incompetence, ethnocentrism, cynicism, gradschool, bad-ideas, academia
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[link] heard: 23 February 2011
[edit] added: 23 February 2011

"I have problems with gender."

apparently talking about French?
language, french, sexuality, puns
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[link] heard: 18 March 2012
[edit] added: 18 March 2012

(04:14:07) نىكو: cypriot also has no question particle

(04:14:10) jonathan: oh???

(04:14:18) jonathan: (pun not intended)

puns, weirdness, turkisms, turkic, language, linguistics
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[link] heard: 25 September 2012
[edit] added: 25 September 2012

CB: "Niko, are you straight on your paper?"

Niko: "Yeah. But that's the only thing I'm straight on."

sexuality, papers, gradschool, academia, puns
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[link] heard: 11 January 2013
[edit] added: 11 January 2013

"No, no Noğays have ever wanted to sleep with me. To my knowledge."

turkic, sex, sexuality, sadness, puns
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[link] heard: 19 February 2013
[edit] added: 19 February 2013

"Theremin ensemble? That sounds like the definition of Hell."

bad-ideas, religion, scariness, music
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[link] heard: 15 March 2013
[edit] added: 15 March 2013

Sam: "I'm going to sing a Mongolian song."

[Sam clears throat]

Niko: "That's actually the name of the song."

Sam and Niko
mongolian, music, provincialism, language, phonetics, insults
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[link] heard: 24 March 2013
[edit] added: 24 March 2013

(23:10:45) jonathan: type: "the use Lubunca"

(23:10:50) jonathan: *typo

Jonathan trying to fix Niko's typos...
sexuality, typos, irony, turkisms, language
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[link] heard: 30 June 2013
[edit] added: 30 June 2013

"But they're Russian tourists—they'll drink anything. It was probably petrol."

bad-ideas, alcohol, SSSR, russian, provincialism
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