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(20:06:04) kesuari: i wish someone would work out a universal definition of word, and make english orthography agree with it

(21:12:04) kesuari: mark twain was awesome

(21:12:08) kesuari: possibly the world's best american

(23:26:35) kesuari: "Use boldface for certain forms in Oscan and Umbrian, and to distinguish Gaulish and other forms originally written in the Greek alphabet." i don't suppose you have any idea why?

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(23:30:58) kesuari: (actually, that's pretty ironic: using bold instead of italics for italic languages like oscan and umbrian)

(01:06:43) kesuari: (there's some people who manage to study the psycholinguistics of generative grammar, but i think that's like studying the physics of alchemy)

(01:03:16) kesuari: it's very difficult to say "psycholinguistics" differently from "psycho linguistics", and a lot of people think that's an apt description of me/what i do

(00:49:38) kesuari: you have a really lax system

[Jonathan explains rules in more depth]

(00:54:44) kesuari: okay, now it seems more normal

(00:54:56) kesuari: complex rules & money = immigration law

(22:46:00) kesuari: but yeah, i get the idea from wp+google's awfully projected world map

(22:46:22) kesuari: seriously, russia looks like it's as big as all the rest of eurasia combined!

(22:48:37) kesuari: altho i suppose that "only" makes it look twice as big as it is

(19:07:00) kesuari: apparently we don't have extradition treaties with canada or new zealand! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_Australia

(19:08:59) kesuari: how can we not with new zealand? they're like our buddies!

(19:09:11) kesuari: maybe we have some other architecture for dealing with extradition between them and us

(19:09:46) kesuari: like we're so happy to extradite that no-one bothers with a treaty, we just say "yo" and they say "have fun"

(20:40:31) kesuari: and take a guess how easy it is to search for information on something called "by" with relation to something called "r"