"I myself am a theoretical phonologist, but in the late '80s, my eyes were beginning to glaze over and I was saying ‘I don't care where to hang [lateral].’"
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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Bruce Hayes, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
phonetics, linguistics, sadness, wisdom, conferences, gradschool
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"Linguistic theory is your friend."
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"Why do we keep weird strong verbs around for thousands of years?"
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heard: 4 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"[In phonology,] you can't just say ‘Oh, that's PF.’"
Paul Kiparsky, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
conferences, irony, insults, wisdom, linguistics, tautologies
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heard: 5 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 5/5
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
me: "That's an abstract?!"
anonymous: "It's a very abstract..."
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heard: 5 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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"And you're going to think, ‘Oh, the big thing is OT Pragmatics—I should do that.’"
Mark Aronoff, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
wisdom, weirdness, linguistics, conferences, gradschool
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heard: 6 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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Ray: "Most of these people [taking intro to linguistics] won't become majors—"
Mark: "And shouldn't."
Ray Jackendoff and Mark Liberman, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
conferences, insults, sadness, college, linguistics, gradschool
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heard: 6 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
Ray: "Phonetics can be a turn off."
Mark: "Depends on how you teach it, Ray."
Ray Jackendoff and Mark Liberman, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
phonetics, conferences, insults, sadness, college, linguistics, professors, gradschool
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heard: 7 January 2007
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
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[edit] added: 9 January 2007
"We don't just want you to think that we're software designers with no understanding of theoretical linguistics. Then you wouldn't sit next to us in the coffee shop, and that would be bad."
Jason Riggle, at the 2007 LSA annual meeting
caffeine, insults, computers, programming, linguistics, people, conferences, gradschool
