"I haven't read this in years. When I first read this in Old High German, it had just been written."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 8 May 2007
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[edit] added: 8 May 2007
"I have a much harder time being mean to furry cute animals than to other living things."
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heard: 7 May 2007
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[edit] added: 7 May 2007
"Well I'm gonna go watch atomic bombs. …Dude, they're pretty—it's too bad they suck."
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heard: 7 May 2007
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[edit] added: 7 May 2007
(00:11:39) kesuari: anyway, on notes unrelated, have you got anywhere a list of soundchanges from some earlier form of the language to kazakh/kyrgyz?
(00:12:09) [me]: no, but I could make one really quickly
(00:12:22) kesuari: could you?
(00:12:31) kesuari: there needs to be a turkic romlang
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heard: 6 May 2007
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[comment] [rate] 5/5
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Hamit aka: "I think Uzbek is the hardest—Uzbekistan is so small, and yet there are so many dialects of Uzbek. Xinjiang is big, but there are only three dialects of Uyghur. And Kazakhstan is huge, but there are no dialects."
Stefan: "Yeah. Russian's the same everywhere."
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heard: 30 April 2007
[edit] added: 30 April 2007
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 30 April 2007
(03:59:35) kesuari: how many ways does greek have of writing /i/!
(03:59:53) kesuari: it’s like the saw english "ough" and thought "hey, we can do that ... in reverse"
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heard: 30 April 2007
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[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 30 April 2007
(00:21:10) kesuari: am i meant to think something of it ?
(00:21:17) [me]: well, yes :-P
(00:21:33) [me]: as an australian listening to an American-made folk song about Australia :-P
(00:21:59) kesuari: it’s just an american doing what americans do. like when they go off and call us "arsies"...
(00:22:08) kesuari: we forgive you, but we don’t encourage you :)
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heard: 28 April 2007
[edit] added: 29 April 2007
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 29 April 2007
[oven beeps]
Gretchen: "Yay, food that isn't peanut butter and jelly!"
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heard: 28 April 2007
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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."
adventures doing the dishes
racism, science, gradschool, patriotism, non-p.c.ness, badness, food, college
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heard: 25 April 2007
[edit] added: 26 April 2007
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[edit] added: 26 April 2007
Derek: "Something about the word ‘Kyrgyz’ sounds agressive."
Jonathan: "What about [qr̩ˈʀz̩] sounds agressive?"
