prof. Kara: "Benjamin, what's regressive assimilation?"
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prof. Kara: "Well, you could say, when the Chinese borrow from the Tibetans, for example."
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heard: 26 February 2009
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(20:47:07) Michael T: well every dictionary needs a little chuvash
(20:47:08) Michael T: that's a feature
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heard: 31 January 2009
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(18:02:22) [Tristan]: i think slang is just a word for colloquial words, at least in colloquial speech
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heard: 29 January 2009
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anon: "So is this worse than the topic you didn't bring up?"
Liv: "Nah."
Jonathan: "Yeah, sex goes fine with food."
Lennea: "And sometimes it makes it better!"
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heard: 23 January 2009
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(22:16:04) jonathan: though the ty/vy forms are taking over :\
(22:16:40) jonathan: (hint: ty/vy = Russian)
(22:17:29) [anon]: wow
(22:17:36) jonathan: wow?
(22:17:58) [anon]: russians
(22:18:15) jonathan: russians = wow?
(22:19:40) [anon]: yeah.. . they are so sneaky.. conquering by inserting pronouns into other languages.
(22:21:11) [anon]: though i guess that's probably not all that gets inserted... and languages are probably not the only thing that gets err.. penetrated.. umm.. anyway
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heard: 23 January 2009
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(17:59:56) kesuari: reading 19th century writing is fun
(18:00:02) kesuari: books were often basically blogs :)
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heard: 13 January 2009
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(16:45:41) kesuari: there's a whole ton of different types of most linguistic things
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heard: 6 January 2009
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(03:53:24) [me]: apt broke evince
(03:53:57) kesuari: cool =)
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heard: 6 January 2009
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(13:18:45) kesuari: and today the jon at uni was going on about not doing homework during break
(13:19:09) kesuari: funny how things come in batches
Jonathan was only talking about how in America, there is no homework over winter break; donno if that's what "jon at uni" had in mind..
compliments, badness, school, college
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heard: 31 December 2008
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Jonathan: "Nah, we'll just reverse the math on the other end."
Aaron: "How do we do the reverse of a modulo? If times two, it equals an odd number?"
